Health News Colorado, formerly Health Policy Solutions, posted an article this week that said one of Colorado’s least populated counties leads the state in health costs per person.
The news outlet quoted Joni Adelman, the Mineral County’s part-time public health nurse as saying: “Anyone who has a heart attack or a traumatic accident has to be flown out. It’s about $50,000 for a helicopter flight out of here and we had four last summer.”
The article relies on data from a new 2012 refort from Colorado’s All Payer Claims Database (APCD).
