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Colorado Access Konekarate ma CuraWest e Aumai Colorado Resident ma Medicaid Filifiliga Fou Togafitiga o Vaisu

AURORA, Kolo. —  Colorado Access fa'ailoa mai se konekarate i totonu o feso'ota'iga ma CuraWest, o le Guardian Recovery Network nofoaga e aveesea ai se pa'u taua tele tau tupe o loʻo feagai ma le tele o tagata Colorado pe a sailia togafitiga mo faʻafitauli o le faʻaaogaina o vailaʻau.

O lo'o ta'ua e Coloradans le le lava o inisiua ma le leai o ni auaunaga tau togafitiga e avea ma mea pito sili ona puipuia latou te feagai i le mauaina o auaunaga tau soifua maloloina. O le 2019 Colorado Health Access Survey na maua ai e sili atu i le 2.5% o Coloradans 18 ma matutua atu (95,000 tagata taʻitoʻatasi) e leʻi maua ni togafitiga poʻo se fautuaga e foia ai o latou faʻalagolago, e mafua ona o paʻu tau tupe.

O Brian Tierney, le Pule Sili o CuraWest, na fa'ailoa mai o le konekarate fou e ogatasi ma le fa'amoemoe a le fa'alapotopotoga e fesoasoani ia i latou uma o lo'o mafatia i le fa'aaogaina o vaila'au (SUDs). "O le galulue faatasi ma Colorado Access ma CCHA e mafai ai ona matou tautuaina le tele o tagata o loʻo manaʻomia le tausiga o le ola aʻo leʻi tuai."

Rob Bremer, PhD, sui peresitene o le soifua maloloina o amioga mo Colorado Access, faaopoopo mai, "O loʻo fiafia Colorado Access e faʻaopoopo CuraWest i la matou fesoʻotaʻiga o kamupani. O la latou galuega e faʻalautele auaunaga SUD o le a sili ona aoga i Coloradans ma Medicaid.

I le 2022, e tusa ma le 25% o Coloradans (1.73 miliona tagata taʻitoʻatasi) na maua le soifua maloloina e ala i le Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid Program). Peita'i, e to'aitiiti lava nofoaga fa'atupe fa'apitoa mo togafitiga i le eria o Denver e talia fa'asalalauga mai fa'alapotopotoga fa'aitulagi e tali atu (RAEs), pei o Colorado Access. E tulaga ese le CuraWest ona ose nofoaga fa'apitoa mo togafitiga e ofoina atu se matā'upu fa'apitoa mo le tausiga ma galulue fa'atasi ma RAE i Denver ma nofoaga lata ane.

"Aʻo faʻateleina le numera o tagata Colorado o loʻo ufiufi e le Health First Colorado, e faʻapea foʻi le manaʻomia o tagata e tuʻuina atu tulaga lelei e talia a latou inisiua," o le tala lea a Joshua Foster, o le ofisa sili o le faʻafoega i le Guardian Recovery Network. “E le’i i ai lava se taimi e sili atu ona taua mo kamupani e tuuina atu auaunaga, e masani ona tautuaina na o tagata mama’i fa’ainisiua faapisinisi, e faalautele atu ai a latou auaunaga ia i latou o lo’o aofia i inisiua fa’atupeina e le setete. Talu mai lona amataga, o le Guardian Recovery Network ua galue ma le filiga e saunia le tausiga i tagata uma e manaʻomia togafitiga faʻaaogaina vailaʻau. Matou te fiafia ua mafai nei ona matou auauna atu i isi tagata Coloradans.

Le Colorado Opioid Epidemic

O le avea ma fesoʻotaʻiga ma Colorado Access e faʻatagaina ai foi CuraWest le avanoa e faʻafefe atili ai le faʻamaʻi o le opioid i le setete atoa. O fua faatatau o le oti o fualaau faasaina ua matua faateleina i Colorado. O le tele o nei maliu e feso'ota'i ma fentanyl, o se opioid synthetic e tusa ma le 100 taimi sili atu le malosi nai lo le morphine. Colorado na vaʻaia le latalata i le 70% faʻateleina i fentanyl overdoses mai le 2020 i le 2021, e tusa ai ma le Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

"O le opioid overdose maliu ua faateleina i lea tausaga ma lea tausaga talu mai le faamaʻi," o le tala lea a Foster. "O le tuʻuina atu o Colorado Access ma CCHA-ufiufi Coloradans i se tulaga maualuga, laʻasaga i lalo polokalame togafitiga o lona uiga o le itiiti ifo o mea ua fai ma vaisu ma faʻaitiitia ai le oti faʻafuaseʻi."

Fentanyl e maua i le pauta ma fualaau ma e masani ona faʻafefiloi ma isi mea e pei o cocaine, heroin, ma mariuana. O mea fa'atonutonu o lo'o maua i Colorado e seasea mama, e tu'u ai e o'o lava i tagata fou ma tagata fa'ato'a taimi muamua i se tulaga lamatia.

"O loʻo i ai se lagona faʻateleina o le faanatinati o loʻo faʻapipiʻi i le Colorado opioid faʻamaʻi," o le tala lea a Tierney. “O le fa'atali e 'tu'i i lalo' ua le toe avea ma se filifiliga; fa'aaoga fentanyl e tasi e mafai ona i'u ai i se fa'ama'i oti. E tatau ona si'i a'e fa'alava ma fa'ato'a fa'ateteleina pa puipui. O le aveesea o le pa puipui tau tupe i togafitiga e taua tele. ”

E uiga i Colorado Access

I le avea ai ma fuafuaga fa'alesoifua maloloina pito sili ona tele ma sili ona poto masani i totonu o le setete, Colorado Access ose fa'alāpotopotoga e leai ni polofiti e galue i tua atu o le fa'atautaia o auaunaga fa'alesoifua maloloina. O lo'o taula'i le kamupani i le fa'amalieina o mana'oga fa'apitoa o sui auai e ala i le fa'apa'aga ma 'au'aunaga ma fa'alapotopotoga fa'alaua'itele ina ia tu'uina atu le tausiga fa'apitoa e sili atu ona lelei e ala i fua fa'atatau. O la latou va'aiga lautele ma loloto i faiga fa'aitulagi ma fa'alotoifale e mafai ai ona latou taula'i atu i le tausiga a tagata a'o galulue fa'atasi i faiga e mafai ona fuaina ma fa'atamaoaigaina e sili atu le tautuaina o i latou. A'oa'o atili ile coaccess.com.