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2014.
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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...
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2015.
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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.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
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...
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2013.
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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...
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2013.
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Care coordination has been described as a deliberate effort to organize patient care activities between two or more participants involved in the patient's care in order to facilitate the delivery of health care services. Care coordination is a necessary foundation to achieving the "triple aim" of health reform: improved individual experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improved population heath and per capita cost control.
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Publisher's description: At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"A memoir-expose of the health-care system by a cardiologist and much-praised author"--Provided by publisher.
In his memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive...
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2015.
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"America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths of our nation's healthcare crisis in his trailblazing Time magazine Special Report, which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. Now...
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Pub. Date
2006
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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...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"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...
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Pub. Date
2006
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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...
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2021.
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"A comprehensive and revelatory book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2019, 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer's, and more than half a million will die of Alzheimer's disease dementia. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2025. Part case...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury. To many soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next even completing tasks as seemingly easy as submitting paperwork can be overwhelming and confusing. Written with these men and women in mind, The Wounded Warrior Handbook provides our wounded heroes and their families with quick, straightforward...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra days on average. This book attempts to help the reader understand where that progress came from and what forces keep people alive longer. The author also considers how to avoid decreases in life expectancy as public...
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Pub. Date
c2008
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Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and surgical interventions. By learning to distinguish...