Tag: Medicare
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Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver Health resume gender-affirming hormone therapy for minors
Children’s Hospital Colorado and Denver Health announced Wednesday that they will return to providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 order said medical professionals are “maiming and sterilizing” impressionable young children by performing irreversible surgical and…
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The 9Health Fair is gone. What happened to it?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s underserved communities are feeling hard-hit by the enormous health care gap left when 365 Health, previously known as 9Health Fair, folded Sept. 1. After 43 years of providing health fair events offering free or reduced screening, vaccinations and health education, the non-profit went broke…
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Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.…
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Colorado Attorney General launches probe of Denver-based home health provider
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Attorney General is investigating a Denver-based company that is the nation’s largest provider in a federal community-based home health program for frail, elderly patients, initiating the probe after the company paid back $13.6 million this year to Colorado’s Medicaid program amid audits by…