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...

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)...

The state of Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) - Division of Insurance (DOI) procured the assistance of Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG) to gather information on the provider networks used by health insurance plans sold in the state, to evaluate the adequacy of these networks in providing reasonable and sufficient access to covered services for plan members, and to assess recent trends in provider networks. This report follows and...

When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, hes not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high-profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever. It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week...

The State of Colorado requires annual administration of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) 3.0H survey of all health plans serving Medicaid beneficiaries. The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (DHCPF) contracts with Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) to administer and report the results of the survey.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center awarded the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Department) a contract and initial funding to develop a State Health Care Policy and Financing (the Department) a contract and initial funding to develop a State Demonstration outlines a plan to better coordinate care for full benefit Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. Colorado was one of only 15 states to receive a planning...

Cassandra Dell Winston recounts her life as the wife of a physician on the frontier.