The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, driven in Colorado by the Colorado Business Group on Health (CBGH), announced today the Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Read Article
In the poignant 1971 movie Fiddler on the Roof about life in a Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village, there is a scene where Reb Tevye intervenes between two men arguing heatedly over a goat (or perhaps a mule). Read Article
State Led Health Reform: Shared Strategies and Lessons - Back in early 2020, when we first began planning for our now thrice-delayed 2021 Annual Forum, we looked around the country to see what was happening at either the Federal level or the State level. Read Article
Most employers that self-fund their employee health benefit plans do so in order to “drive the bus.” And, of course, self-funding does give employers more control over benefits. Read Article
Greenwich Biosciences is focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel therapeutics from its propriety cannabinoid product platform. Our enduring commitment to scientific rigor and exacting pharmaceutical manufacturing standards enables us to bring forward plant-derived cannabinoid prescription medicines for patients. We are the first and only company to pursue and receive FDA approval for a plant-derived […] Read Article
Medical experts agree, and research has demonstrated, that the overuse of cesarean sections, episiotomies, and early elective deliveries can unnecessarily increase risks – some of which are both serious and long-term - to both mothers and babies Read Article
As a literature major in the turbulent 1960s, it would have been impossible to have avoided the French existentialistic philosopher and author Jean Paul Sartre. “Nausea,” “Being and Nothingness,” and “No Exit” were the sorts of things that could keep like-minded college students up until very late. Well, that and partying. Oftentimes both. Read Article
Mesa County Valley School District 51 is the largest school district on the Western Slope of Colorado and the 14th largest school district in the state. Read Article
Established in 1996, this year the Colorado Business Group on Health is celebrating our 25th year. (“Celebrating” is a bit over-the-top. We’ll probably have lunch at Olive Garden.) Here are a few of the things that have happened and/or changed in the intervening quarter-century… Read Article
Genentech is a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Read Article
Out of the thick dust cloud caused by Haven Healthcare’s recent implosion, a key question about US healthcare once again rises: Can free market principles create greater value for patients and purchasers? Can our adored “free market” approach make healthcare more reliable? More affordable? Or will it continue to “foster inefficiency and “erode quality?” Read Article
As it is with men, so it is with properly functioning marketplaces: enlightened purchasers of a proactive nature can alter a given market’s course, and thus, the “foreshadowed ends” which will otherwise come about. Read Article