by Amy Gillentine Published: March 9,2011
Tags: Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente will now review grants on a monthly – instead of biannual – basis. The grants range from $250 to $5,000 and are available to nonprofits in the El Paso, Pueblo, Fremont and Teller county areas. The budget for southern Colorado is about $250,000 a year and the Colorado division gives about $3 million [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 13,2011
Tags: Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, David Csintyan, Kaiser Permanente, Memorial Health System, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Memorial Health System and Kaiser Permanente are each contributing $3,579 to the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce in payment for its wellness program victories. All 20 chamber employees completed a three-month program in which they were screened for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, body mass index and smoking. They were offered on-site personalized [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: August 9,2010
Colorado’s safety net clinics will benefit form a $500,000 Kaiser Permanente grant program. The grant program aims to improve the quality of care at the clinics, which largely serve uninsured or under-insured people. Statewide, more than 500,000 people use the clinics annually. Individual grants will range from $10,000 to $100,000 and will be available to nonprofit health [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 19,2010
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 [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 15,2010
Tags: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Electronic Health Records, Ingenix, Kaiser Permanente
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 [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: November 19,2009
Tags: breast cancer, Kaiser Permanente, mammograms, Memorial Health Services, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services
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. [...]
by Staff Writer Published: November 17,2009
Tags: Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Quitline, Rocky Mountain Health Plans
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 [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: November 13,2009
Tags: in-network, Kaiser Permanente, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services
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 [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: October 22,2009
Tags: disabilities, Kaiser Permanente, Medicaid, pharmacy costs
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 [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: July 15,2009
Tags: Kaiser Permanente
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 [...] [...]
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