Scapegoating Emergency Room Users
Emergency rooms can be one of the most expensive places to get health care, and there’s broad agreement that keeping people out of them saves money.
By Eric Whitney
Election 2010: Local Medical Marijuana Bans
There’s a pretty good chance that a local ballot in Colorado this year has a question about banning medical marijuana dispensaries on it.
By Eric Whitney
MacArthur Genius Takes On ‘Boomerang Patients’
Dr. Eric Coleman thought it was a prank at first.
By Eric Whitney
Benefit or Burden? State Defines Required Health Coverage
Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Affordable Care Act is the requirement to buy health insurance. To some, it’s a blessing, to others it’s a burden.
By Eric Whitney
Putting DaVita Under the Microscope
This interview has been edited to correct errors outlined below. As a taxpayer, you foot the bill for many people who are on kidney dialysis.
By Eric Whitney
Colorado Biotech’s Big Day
Today in a downtown Denver ballroom, the white coats meet the suits. Colorado’s top biotech scientists step out of their labs and run their big ideas by venture capitalists.
By Eric Whitney
University Now State’s 3rd Biggest Hospital System
The results of a special election in Colorado Springs have changed the healthcare landscape statewide.
By Eric Whitney
On the Health Beat: August 2012
Businesses like repeat customers. But if the business you’re running is a hospital, repeat customers could indicate the care you’re providing isn’t up to snuff.
By Eric Whitney
Really? Own Your Own Health Insurance Company?
Healthy people save insurance companies money, because they pay premiums, but the insurer doesn’t have to pay a lot out for their health care.
By Eric Whitney
Homeless Kids Get Ready for School
Families across Colorado are hitting back to school sales, getting sports physicals and updating immunizations before classes start in a few weeks.
By Eric Whitney
New Penalties for Revolving Door Hospitals
One of the biggest changes the federal health care law makes for hospitals has just kicked in.
By Eric Whitney
Colorado’s Health Exchange in Jeopardy
Five Republican state lawmakers have the power to kill Colorado’s work so far in implementing a key part of the federal health care law.
By Eric Whitney
Many Colorado Doctors Refuse New Medicaid Patients
A new study says about a third of office-based doctors in Colorado aren’t taking any new Medicaid patients.
By Eric Whitney
Free Health Screenings a Hassle for Docs
Women’s health advocates are celebrating a new provision of the federal health care law that takes effect today: women with insurance can get many common preventive health services with no […]
By Eric Whitney
Scorched Summers: Remembering 2002
For Coloradans who’ve been here a while, this summer may be resulting in a bad case of deja vu.
By Eric Whitney
Colorado Doc is New AMA President
Jeremy Lazarus is a Denver psychiatrist and a 13-time triathlon finisher. He’s also the new president of the American Medical Association, the country’s largest and most influential doctors’ organization.
By Eric Whitney