by Associated Press Published: January 6,2012
Tags: Colorado, Health Care, Medicaid
State officials say nearly 615,000 Coloradans were on Medicaid in November, which is a record high. Officials are attributing most of the growth to economic hard times rather than recent eligibility expansions. Sue Birch is director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. She told members of the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee on Wednesday [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: September 13,2011
Tags: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, Maxim Healthcare Services, Medicaid
Colorado will receive $5.7 million as part of a $160 million multistate settlement with Maryland-based Maxim Healthcare Services, an in-home health care service provider. Colorado is one of 41 states involved in the suit, which settles allegations that the company billed Medicaid for services it did not perform. The state’s share of the money will be returned [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 28,2011
Tags: 2020, government, health, Medicaid, Medicare
The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report released Thursday. How much is that? Including government and private money, health care spending in 2020 will average $13,710 for every man, woman and child, [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: June 15,2011
Tags: Colorado Springs Independence Center, logo, Medicaid, name change
After 24 years, the Colorado Springs Independence Center has a new name and new logo – and expanded services. Now known as The Independence Center, the local nonprofit for disabled adults offers home health care, independent living services and the only retail store in Colorado that carries adaptive equipment for people with disabilities. “The Indepedence Center provides [...] [...]
It’s getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations. The new tactic is raising the anxiety level — and risks — for corporate honchos at drug companies, medical device manufacturers, nursing home chains and other major health [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: February 4,2011
Tags: Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, Colorado hospital fee, Independence Institute, Medicaid, shingles, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Less than two years ago, the Colorado hospital fee passed with much fanfare and to the great relief of the state’s hospitals. The fee is expected to bring in more than $800 million for Medicaid to provide insurance for the state’s poor and indigent. It would allow thousands of children to be seen by doctors rather [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 28,2011
Tags: Add new tag, electronic records, health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare
There’s good and bad news for the health care reforms passed last year (and which Republicans hope to decimate this year). First the good: Thanks to the law, a record amount of money was recovered from fraudulent Medicare claims last year. The Department of Health and Human Services recovered a total of $4 billion last year. Now [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 27,2011
Tags: health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare
Americans don’t want Washington to cut Medicaid, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. While most Americans want to cut the trillion-dollar deficit by cutting spending, they don’t want to cut funding for Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid – the most expensive entitlement programs. The fact that about [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 14,2011
Tags: Child Health Insurance Program Plus, Department of Health and Human Services, Hickenlooper, Medicaid, Medicare
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s new executive team includes the people who will be shaping Colorado’s health care policy for the next four years. Those people will be responsible, in part, for helping create the new health insurance exchanges required by federal law, as well as guiding the state’s efforts at implementing other parts of the health care [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: December 28,2010
Tags: Colorado Attorney General, Elan, John Suthers, Medicaid
Colorado will receive more than $210,000 as part of a settlement with Elan Corp. to resolve allegations the company improperly marketed its anti-epileptic drug Zonegran for off-label uses, said Attorney General John Suthers. Colorado’s share is part of a $101 million settlement that resolves allegations that Ireland-based Elan promoted the sale and use of the drug [...] [...]
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