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Supreme Court Decision Aside, Colorado Needs to Continue Fast-Tracking Improvements for Our Health Care System

Apr 16, 2012  |  1 comments  |  Posted by Philip B. Kalin

Controlling Costs, Delivery System Redesign, Payment Reform, Rewarding Value, CIVHC Partners

Editorial version published by Denver Business Journal 4.13.12

As the CEO of an organization deeply focused on efforts to make Colorado’s health care better and less expensive, I get a lot of questions about the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Federal Health Care Reform, aka Obamacare). Many assume that if the Supreme Court strikes the law down, the work of CIVHC and many other partner organizations somehow goes away and we hit a big re-set button for our work.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

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The All Payer Claims Database will Help Coloradans

Apr 27, 2012  |  1 comments  |  Posted by

Colorado Health Foundation, Delivery System Redesign, Payment Reform, The Colorado Trust, Claims, All Payer Claims Database

Lalit BajajBy Lalit Bajaj, M.D., M.P.H., and Nathan Wilkes - APCD Advisory Committee Members

Featured in Denver Post, Guest Commentary 4/27/12

We've all heard the old adage you can't manage what you don't measure. The same is true for health care. In Colorado and across the nation, costs for health care services continue spiraling out of control, gobbling up higher percentages of our wages while taking away from resources that could improve our schools and infrastructure.

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