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Hospitals suing patients would have to put their names on lawsuits under new Colorado bill

‘Deceiving people who owe money should never be a strategy to hide affiliation,’ patient advocacy member says

DATE: Apr 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers are targeting hospital facility fees

House Bill 1215 would ban hospitals from charging facility fees for most outpatient visits

DATE: Mar 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Centura Health, parent company of Mercy Hospital, announces its breakup

CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth say they will manage their hospitals separately

DATE: Feb 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

A study answers the question: Has legal pot in Colorado made other drug problems worse?

A study from the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota uses long-term data on twins to assess the impacts

DATE: Feb 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado releases list of prescription drugs to import from Canada

In an application sent to the federal government, the state is asking to bring in 112 drugs at an average savings of 65%

DATE: Dec 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado officials accused of trying to tip scales in favor of a Jared Polis health insurance policy

Health insurance brokers say the state is interfering in the free market to favor the Colorado Option, potentially at consumers’ expense

DATE: Dec 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado is about to (possibly, maybe, conditionally) adopt permanent daylight saving time

Congress also must pass a law, and at least four other Mountain time zone states need to join

DATE: Apr 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

An omicron curveball: At two Colorado hospital systems, most COVID patients aren’t there for COVID

Two hospitals report that 60% or more of their patients who are COVID positive are there for other reasons

DATE: Jan 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Pressure grows on Gov. Jared Polis to issue a statewide mask order

Public health leaders across state have sent letters asking for a mandate

DATE: Nov 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s governor said hospital capacity would dictate a new mask mandate. So why hasn’t he issued one?

Polis vowed to take action before hospitals became overwhelmed. They are nearly overwhelmed.

DATE: Nov 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The most common COVID-19 vaccine side effects

Overwhelming majority report mild reactions; the ones that aren’t get special scrutiny

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Vaccinated Coloradans 93% less likely to develop COVID-19

As of Monday, 819 fully immunized peopled had contracted virus since Jan. 21

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News