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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
This report provides an overview of the health and wellness industry in Colorado, details the industry's strengths and its weaknesses, and looks at opportunities and challenges presented by a changing marketplace. It concludes with recommendations from industry leaders that are designed to promote smart growth while fostering a healthy and productive population.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The State of Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing will seek approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Section 1115 waiver authority to embark on a five year demonstration to implement hospital-led strategic initiatives through the establishment of a delivery system reform incentive payment (DSRIP) program. The state will leverage hospital supplemental payment funding generated through existing...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Hospital Transformation Program will engage the state's acute care and critical access hospitals by pairing the flexibility to implement innovative interventions with financial incentives designed to encourage regional collaboration and improve access, quality and appropriateness of service delivery, and patient outcomes across vital areas of care. The HTP will be the state's first major effort to significantly redirect hospital supplemental payments...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Hospitals that have been accepted into the Hospital Transformation Program (HTP) must submit an Implementation Plan detailing the strategies and steps they intend to take in implementing each of the intervention(s) outlined in their applications impacting the six program priority areas: (a) Care Coordination and Care Transitions; (b) Complex Care Management for Target Populations; (c) Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Coordination; (d)...
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Colorado. Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting. Research and Evidence-Based Policy Team
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The Research and Evidence-Based Policy (REP) team in the Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting(OSPB) has reviewed programs in the Results First health policy area. The team has developed a program inventory of programs/services delivered in the state, ranked them on their predicted effectiveness based on national/state research, and estimated the benefits of these programs. Contrary to prior Results First reports, the traditional cost-benefit...
11) Sicko
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by U.S. health care insurance companies, companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The slow violence being inflicted on our environment-through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution-also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard healthcare practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A must-read for every American and business leader."-Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system-and the people who are saving it. One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts,...
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book, Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In our urgent public debates about our broken healthcare system, we have overlooked the devastating personal and social impact of America’s medical debt crisis! We have overlooked the devastating personal and social impact of America's medical debt crisis! Millions of Americans face hardship from $1 trillion in U.S. medical debt. The three authors of End Medical Debt are industry insiders.Together they began RIP Medical Debt, a tax-exempt charity...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The problems of U.S. health care are of intense public interest today. The debate over where to go next to rein in costs and improve access to quality health care has become bitterly partisan, with distorted rhetoric largely uninformed by history, evidence, or health policy science. Based on present trends, our expensive dysfunctional system threatens patients, families, the government, and taxpayers with future bankruptcy. This book takes a 60-year...
19) Sicko
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by U.S. health care insurance companies, companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
20) The Waiting Room
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A character-driven documentary film that goes behind the doors of an American public hospital (Oakland, Ca.) struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. Young victims of gun violence take their turn alongside artists and small business owners who lack insurance. The film weaves the stories of several patients--as well as the hospital staff charged with caring for them--as they cope with the complexity of the nation's public health...