BOULDER—Boulder Community Hospital has closed its internal medicine practice, an office which treated about 6,000 patients who mostly relied on Medicare.
Hospital spokesman Rich Sheehan says the weak economy factored into the decision to close the practice Friday. He says the hospital didn’t want to continue paying rent for the practice’s offices. In addition, he says federal Medicare payments didn’t cover enough of the costs of treating patients.
Sheehan says the hospital gave the practice’s four doctors the option of moving to another location. Two chose to go into private practice and two will work in other areas within the hospital system.
Sheehan says patients who need help finding a new doctor will be placed within the system.
