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Domestic medical travel is taking off for surgery deals
Friday, July 16th, 2010USAToday
When John McNally needed a knee-replacement operation, his employer, Alpha Coal West, offered to pay his travel expenses if he would have the surgery in Fort Collins, Colo., a five-hour drive from his home near Gillette, Wyo.
The Colorado surgery center had data showing good results with such operations, and it charged…
Project Cure in the News Part Two
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Ghana’s first lady is on hand as $400,000 in surplus medical supplies gets on its way to hospitals in her nation. The first of five containers packed with enough medical supplies to stock seven hospitals is on its way to Ghana, and the first lady of that West African nation on Thursday told backers of…
CASCA Corporate Member Featured in Denver Business Journal
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Dr. Marion Jenkins of QSE Technologies, a valued CASCA Corporate Member and sponsor of our conferences, had an opinion piece featured in the Denver Business Journal in December 08. You may read it here:
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/12/08/editorial2.html
Rx for Colorado’s Ailing Wallet
Monday, August 27th, 2007Bill Scanlon
Rocky Mountain News
State commission will get consultants’ take today on final four plans aimed at insuring more Coloradans’ health while slowing rising costs
Coloradans start getting answers today on how they’ll pay for health care in the future and whether the state intends to tweak or thoroughly overhaul how it…
Slicing Skin, Slicing Costs: Surgery Centers Position Themselves as Low-Cost Option
Friday, August 24th, 2007John Aguilar
Daily Camera
LOUISVILLE — Dr. Tom Mann reaches with a gloved finger into the incision he’s made and rummages around inside his patient’s forearm, searching for the end of a torn tendon.
He finds it, pulls it out and examines it under the bright, surgical lights — a limp, sinewy string decorated with blobs of scar tissue.
Within 90 minutes, he’ll clean up the tendon, reattach it to the bicep, stitch up the arm, wake up the patient and send him on his way — all for about a third of what it would cost in a hospital.
Mann’s effort is one of 3,000 procedures that surgeons at the 4-year-old Flatirons Surgery Center in Louisville will perform this year.
“Why are we performing these kinds of outpatient procedures in a hospital setting when we can do it here for a fraction of the cost?” said Bettie Fimbrez, a registered nurse and the administrator at Flatirons.
Advocates of ambulatory surgery centers, such as the one Fimbrez heads, say the centers are helping to put a brake on spiraling health-care costs in the United States by doing routine, same-day surgeries — like shoulder reconstruction, spine injections and ligament reconstruction — without the overhead and bureaucracy of a hospital.…
Denver Chamber Poll Released
Friday, June 1st, 2007The statewide poll was conducted in early December by Dr. David Hill of Hill Research Consultants, one of the most respected firms in public-opinion research. Many will remember that Dr. Hill conducted polling that led to Referenda C and D and provided polling and insight throughout the campaign. The most recent poll surveyed active Colorado…
Health Inventures’ President & CEO Richard Hanley Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2007 Award Finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region
Thursday, May 17th, 2007BROOMFIELD, CO, May 17- Health Inventures today announced that President & CEO Richard Hanley is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2007 Award in the Rocky Mountain Region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who…