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CIVHC Utilization Spot Analysis: Free Standing Emergency Departments

July 2016

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Consumers, Providers, Researchers, Health Reform

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Utilization, Cost, Health, Commercial

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Cari Frank
cfrank@civhc.org

This report finds that Coloradans using new free standing emergency departments (FSEDs) for non-life threatening conditions are paying more than if they had used an urgent care facility. The analysis is based on 2014 claims from the Colorado APCD.