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"Jeff Bontrager, director of research for the Colorado Health Institute, said this is something that many more people deal with as they face serious conditions. People without insurance, and even those who do qualify for Medicaid, are usually not covered for specialist care. His agency estimates Coloradans miss about 634,000 specialty care visits per year." [Denverite]

CHI CEO Michele Lueck provided her insight into a new state law capping the price of insulin on a 9News segment Thursday night.

The Denver Post, Colorado Public Radio and other publications covered the first-of-its-kind Health and Climate Index published by CHI on Earth Day 2019.

“Legislators are now racing against the clock to pass some of their top-priority bills – many of which are not expected to make it,” CHI's Eli Boone wrote in an article from the Durango Herald.

CHI's Emily Johnson was featured in a Denver7 story about the 2020 Census, an issue Johnson and Jeff Bontrager addressed recently in a Denver Post opinion piece.

Accuracy should not be a partisan issue, warn CHI's Jeff Bontrager and Emily Johnson in The Denver Post.

If even a small portion of people aren’t counted in the 2020 Census, Colorado risks losing millions in public health funding.

Edmond Toy, a senior adviser for the Colorado Health Institute, told KHN that the argument that pursuing the ACA policy would help lower insurance premiums “broadened the appeal of Medicaid expansion … and conceptually it makes total sense.”

Following CHI's research on a recent report by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Managing Director of Communications Joe Hanel gave an interview to the Denver Post on the subject.