Buying mail-order medications may encourage patients to stick to their doctor-prescribed medication regimen, new research suggests.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. found that patients with diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol who ordered their medications by mail were more [...] [...]
Health insurers, doctors and government organizations are moving closer to implementing electronic health records — something analysts say will save millions in health care costs and earn providers incentive dollars from the federal government.
Cost is the main barrier to implementing reform, so Ingenix is offering a solution to the program: interest-free financing for doctors who [...] [...]
Even though the government has backed away from a recommendation issued earlier this week that women should postpone mammograms until age 50, local hospitals say they don't intend to change their policies, which is generally to begin screening at age 40. [...]
Seven insurance companies have agreed to pay for their members to use Quitline, the state-sponsored smoking cessation program.
The agreement will effectively save the program because the state’s budget crunch caused its budget to be slashed.
Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Humana, Cigna, Denver Health Medical Plans, Colorado Access and Rocky Mountain Health Plans will pay for members.
QuitLine’s funding was dependent [...] [...]
Kaiser Permanente has entered into an agreement with Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, and starting Jan. 1, the hospital system will be an in-network provider for Kaiser commercially insured members.
“Our members have long expressed a desire to have Penrose-St. Francis Health Services return as a part of our network,” said Mark Iorio, Kaiser executive director of network development [...] [...]
Medicaid patients with disabilities also have other problems that lead to higher drug and medical costs.
A Kaiser Permanente study, built on an earlier analysis of one year of national Medicaid diagnostic data, found that when prescription drugs were added to the study, more problems were associated with people with disabilities, making them both the highest-need and the highest cost [...] [...]
Kaiser Permanente Insurance Company and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado have been fined for several conduct violations.
Kaiser health plan was fined $201,000, and the insurance company was fined $166,000.
“The violations were pretty typical for a large insurance company,” said Carol O’Bryan, director of market regulation for the Division of Insurance. “We have some very [...] [...]
Kaiser Permanente plans to open a medical office in the Parkwest Medical Complex in Pueblo.
The offices will be the health plan’s first in the area and will house three primary care doctors.
Kaiser will offer a complete pharmacy and basic lab and X-ray services.
The three Kaiser physicians also will work with doctors from Pueblo and Fremont counties [...] [...]
Colorado’s rural areas are facing a serious shortage of health care providers — but Kaiser Permanente is giving $2.4 million to the University of Colorado at Denver’s Health Science Center to help train more medical professionals who will work in isolated areas the state.
The money will establish an Interdisciplinary Rural Training and Service Program, designed [...] [...]
Kaiser Permanente has signed a 20,000-square-foot lease at The Pavilions office park, a devlopment across the street from the Memorial North hospital that has sat vacant since it was constructed in 2008.
Kaiser spokeswoman C.J. Moore said the facility will be occupied by the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, which will open a first Medicare clinic at [...] [...]
