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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 includes...

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...

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...

"The book looks at the largest hospital system in the country, the Veterans Healthcare Administration--one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media. The author spent five years closely observing the VHA's treatment of patients suffering from service related injuries, physical and mental. This book describes how the VHA, tasked with a challenging patient population, does a better job than...

The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and...

This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century.