GJ Healthcare|February 25, 2010 9:00 PM

Just how much less expensive?

Photo provided by Daniel Borman (borman818) under Creative Commons License.

Grand Junction’s heavily non-profit system of health care:

  • -Saved Colorado $2 million a year in Medicaid reimbursements between 2003 and 2005
  • -Saved the federal government $13.2 million on Medicare from 2000 to 2002
  • -Is the most cost-effective deliverer of services for chronic diseases in the nation
  • -Hospitalized patients one-third as many days as the national average
  • -Saved $5,150 per person who died in hospice care, compared to national average

Sources:

  1. Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
  2. The Chatfield Consulting Group
  3. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, cost disparities
  4. The Dartmouth Atlas
  5. The Dartmouth Atlas

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