Blogs
We’ve Only Just Begun
A few months ago, I helped my daughter prepare to leave Colorado for a new journey in her life. We laughed and reminisced as she packed up the items we thought she’d need (and would fit in a small backpack), Read more…
Blogs
Five Things I Think About the Next Phase of Health Care Reform
This is not the end of Obamacare; it’s the beginning.In a surprising move, Paul Ryan pulled the American Health Care Act, the Republican ACA repeal and replace bill, last Friday. It had become clear that there was no movement to Read more…
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SIM Recruits Practices to Integrate Behavioral, Physical Health, and Test APMs
Denver, Colo., March 20, 2017Media contact: Connor Holzkamp, 303.691.7842, Connor.Holzkamp@state.co.usSIM recruits practices to integrate behavioral, physical health and test APMsThere are less than two weeks left to apply for the Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM), a federal initiative that helps Read more…
Blogs
Is A Better Way Actually Better?
Is Paul Ryan’s world view a place we want to live? We’re about to find out.In the current debate over the Affordable Care Act’s repeal and replacement, we are watching the collision of two world views. While partisans on both Read more…
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CO APCD 2016 Annual Report Now Available
Source: The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) Media Contact: Cari Frank 303.903.6007, cfrank@civhc.org Colorado All Payer Claims Database 2016 Annual Report Now Available CO APCD helps Change Agents across Colorado address health care challenges DENVER – March Read more…
Analytics and Innovation
Plaintalk Blog: Why Did Colorado Want An APCD and What Are We Supposed to Do With It?
So, we’ve explained what an All Payer Claims Database is and all the exciting things that it can do; but, why on earth would Colorado want such a thing? How did the CO APCD come to be and what, exactly, Read more…
Blogs
Undoing American Healthcare
Why assuming we’re rational about health care may be a dangerous assumptionI am reading a wonderful book called The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, about the development of behavioral economics by two of its pioneers, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Read more…
Blogs
Insurance Pools: How Do We Pay for the Expensive People?
Why you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.I think for most people, including me at times, the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is an exercise in taking something they didn’t understand well Read more…
News
Connect for Health Colorado Receives #2 National Ranking for New Consumer Shopping Tool
Contact: Connect for Health Colorado, Luke Clarke, 720-496-2545, LClarke@Connectforhealthco.comDENVER — A third party, non-partisan healthcare group ranked the Connect for Health Colorado® website second among the 12 state-based health insurance marketplaces and HealthCare.gov, in a report card issued this week. Read more…
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CIVHC Participates in First-in-the-Nation Healthcare Cost Project Highlighting Variation Across Regions
Source: The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) CIVHC Contact: Cari Frank, (303) 903-6007, cfrank@civhc.orgNRHI: Kathy Nichols, (207) 400-1828, knichols@nrhi.orgNew data available to Colorado providers to improve care and lower costsDENVER – JANUARY 19, 2017 — The Center Read more…