Our Work
A new report focuses on the rollout of the ACA in the western states and was put together by a network of researchers. Authors of Colorado's report? CHI's own Jeff Bontrager, Sara Schmitt and Kevin Butcher.
We are more than halfway through the session, and our team at CHI continues to track the progress and introduction of health-related legislation. A few notable bills were introduced since last week.
The Colorado Health Institute contributed a chapter to a new report looking at ACA implementation in eight western states.
Another Monday at the Colorado Health Institute means another opportunity to look back at our successes and set the stage for what’s to come this week. And with daylight savings back in place, it means we’ll have an extra hour of sunlight every day for health-related data and analysis.
Do freestanding for-profit emergency rooms fill a consumer demand? Or are they driving up health care costs? Or is it a bit of both?
“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” the saying goes. Here at the Colorado Health Institute, March will be coming in and going out like a lion with a number of launches and publications on the agenda for this month.
We are almost halfway through the session, and our team at CHI continues to track the introduction and progress of health-related legislation.
Health care costs are high. This week we presented information on market-based solutions to this problem and released a report on cost-sharing, one of the most common and fastest changing approaches to containing health care spending.
Maybe it’s something in the water. At least that’s what Jeff Bontrager, Director of Research on Coverage and Access, speculated during our Monday morning staff meeting as he told us about all of the information requests that are coming our way.