CU Anschutz In The News

Richard Lindrooth, lead author and a professor the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health, said once these new patients were covered, hospitals saw fewer uninsured admissions, and increased Medicaid payments — helping their bottom line. "It's not as though Medicaid is an extremely profitable form of reimbursement, but it is something,” Lindrooth said. “On the margins it certainly helps the hospitals' cash flow."

In a report published Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology, researchers from the University of Southern California and University of Colorado Denver detailed their efforts to educate hairdressers with a training video. Hairdressers had told some of the same researchers that they wanted to learn more about melanoma detection in an earlier survey, so they seemed like willing participants.