Markian Hawryluk
Markian Hawryluk is the senior Colorado correspondent for KHN, based in Denver. He has reported on health care for more than 25 years, writing for such publications as the Houston Chronicle, American Medical News and, most recently, The (Bend, Ore.) Bulletin. He has won numerous awards for his health reporting from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists and, in 2009, won Oregon鈥檚 top reporting prize, the Bruce Baer Award for investigative journalism. In 2013, he was named a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He holds a master鈥檚 degree in journalism from the University of Illinois.
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More than a quarter century after an inmate helped start a hospice program in one of the nation's most notorious prisons, he is trying to spread the idea. -
When Denver Health wanted to open an inpatient opioid detox unit specifically for teens, doctors there searched high and low for a model to copy. They didn鈥檛 find one. -
To advance health equity, the state is requiring insurers that offer public option plans to collect demographic data on providers, including race and sexual orientation, raising privacy concerns. -
Washington is the first state to introduce a public option for health insurance, but it has been difficult to get hospitals on board. Other states with public options in the works are taking notice. -
With no local access to prescription drugs, the town of Walden, Colorado has crowdsourced a delivery system, taking advantage of anyone鈥檚 trip to those bigger cities to pick up medications for the rest of the town. -
Tired of waiting for federal action to reduce prescription drug costs, Colorado is acting on its own 鈥� even if it must do so with one arm tied behind its back. Unable to set prices or change patent protections, the state is exploring creative legislative and administrative approaches to lower out-of-pocket costs on medications. -
Before the pandemic, Colorado looked set to become the second state to pass what鈥檚 known as a 鈥減ublic option鈥� health insurance plan, which would have forced hospitals that lawmakers said were raking in "obscene" profits to accept lower payments. But when COVID-19 struck, legislators hit pause. -
People fighting the spread of COVID-19 face many unique challenges when doing contact tracing among low-income Latino immigrants in tight-knit communities. Long-standing health care disparities, job insecurity, immigration status, language barriers and a profound distrust of government all complicate the already tricky task. -
As COVID-19 forced many addiction treatment clinics to scale back, Colorado brought its clinics on wheels to remote, underserved towns and used telehealth to connect patients with addiction doctors. -
A college student's bill for outpatient knee surgery is a whopper 鈥� $96K 鈥� but the most mysterious part is a $1,167 charge from a health care provider she didn't even know was in the operating room.
