By Michael Booth, The Denver Post

WALSENBURG — There are jobs for 2 1/2 doctors at the county health clinic in this hardscrabble southern Colorado town. Getting health insurance companies to pay those doctors takes 9.6 file clerks.

Last year, the Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center sent bills to 193 commercial health insurance plans.

That would seem to make Medicare and Medicaid a piece of cake for finding the rest of the clinic’s revenue. Except that with veterans, federal employees, military personnel and others, Spanish Peaks also had to bill 22 separate governmental insurance plans.

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