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It's the race to the finish line for Colorado as it writes an application for a multi-million dollar State Innovation Model grant.
Is employer-sponsored insurance on the decline in Colorado? Time – and the next few years of CHAS data – will tell.
This week, the Colorado Health Institute is working largely outside of our office walls with staff attending conferences here in Colorado, New Orleans and on the East Coast.
The Colorado Health Institute explores the financial burden of medical bills in our latest brief. This is particularly timely as the nation begins to assess the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in meeting its goal of limiting the financial exposure to medical expenses.
The Colorado Health Institute released a report that gives a detailed picture of Colorado’s uninsured population through a series of 17 maps, an analysis revealing significant statewide variations in demographic and geographic characteristics.
We hope you’ve seen the Colorado Health Institute’s new publication analyzing Colorado’s uninsured population, our first entirely map-based report.
The next open enrollment period for private insurance doesn’t begin until November, but planning has already begun in Colorado for outreach and enrollment efforts next time around.
Now that the 2014 legislative session has come to an end, exhausted lawmakers are thrilled to finally have a break. But here at the Colorado Health Institute, our work is just beginning.
Coloradans covered by Medicaid are more likely to go to the emergency department (ED) than those with other types of insurance, though the rate for Medicaid enrollees has declined in recent years.
Many health policy experts extol the virtues of transparency as an effective way to generate competition in the health insurance and health care markets. They expect that consumers who better understand what they are paying for will make informed – what economists call rational - decisions.