Colorado Medicaid looks to pay for produce, meals
Colorado’s Medicaid agency, health care providers and nonprofits want more people to get nutritious food as part of their overall health care, but no one is sure how to fund …
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Coloradans losing Medicaid at pre-pandemic rate after feds’ pause lifted
Halfway through the process of determining who still qualifies for Medicaid coverage in Colorado, recipients are getting kicked off at about the same rate they were before the pandemic. During …
Trump clemency recipient Philip Esformes loses Supreme Court bid
FILE – In this Aug. 7, 2015 file photo, Philip Esformes arrives at the 15th Annual Harold and Carole Pump Foundation Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, in …
Colorado officials weigh rule change to give longer hospital stays to mentally ill patients
Barbara Vassis keeps a spreadsheet to track her daughter’s years-long journey through Colorado’s patchwork mental health system. The sheet goes back 11 years, a third of Erin’s life. There are …
Colorado blames Biden, drugmakers for delaying Canadian imports
By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Colorado officials say their plan to import cheaper medicines from Canada has been stymied by opposition from drugmakers and inaction by the Biden administration, …
Colorado probes “unprecedented” Medicaid patient transportation scheme
The patients began to flock to metro Denver methadone clinics in mid to late summer, five or six to a car. Most were users of illicit opioids, including fentanyl. Many …
Every Child Pediatrics offers kids health care no matter ability to pay
When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit organization, Every Child Pediatrics. “We see every …
Failed inspection shut down one of Porter hospital’s boilers before second unit broke
State regulators informed AdventHealth Porter on Oct. 12 that one of the Denver hospital’s two 50-year-old boilers was in such disrepair that it was no longer safe to operate and …
Biden admin slow to act as millions booted off Medicaid, advocates say
By AMANDA SEITZ and KENYA HUNTER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of …
At least 2 million poor kids in the U.S. have lost Medicaid coverage since April
Expert breaks down rising health insurance costs Expert breaks down rising health insurance costs 04:22 At least 2 million children have lost health insurance coverage since the end of a …