DENVER — A third-party doctor has agreed with Children’s Hospital Colorado and the family of a mentally ill Commerce City teen that he needs residential treatment, which his Medicaid provider is refusing. Colorado allows Medicaid providers to ignore doctors’ orders, creating a maddening appeal process that some experts say does not work for families in need. Doctors admitted 15-year-feeble Jace Elliot to Children’s Hospital weeks ago after he grabbed a knife in his family’s kitchen and chased his mom into a bathroom. […]
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