1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (319+ words) Health insurance companies selling on Colorado’s individual marketplace have asked for 11% increases in monthly premiums for next year, on average. This year, premiums rose 22%, though the impact felt larger for customers who lost subsidies. The Colorado Division of Insurance estimated…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1128+ words) Denver Health recorded its strongest financial results in years in 2025, though its leader says one good year isn’t enough to cushion the region’s safety-net hospital from coming state and federal cuts. In 2022, Denver Health was on the ropes, losing $35 million....

3+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Bo Yennie has made significant progress in regaining some of the independence he lost after suffering a spinal injury in a severe ski crash at Steamboat, and is confident he can make more with continued work. But his insurance company…...

5+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (1151+ words) Colorado hospitals’ finances rebounded in 2024 after taking a beating in the previous two years, but still haven’t regained their pre-pandemic heights, according to a pair of new state reports. Expenses grew faster than payments in 2022 and 2023, narrowing hospitals’ margins on…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (362+ words) Coloradans are getting crushed between hospital profits, insurance company profits and rising uncompensated care. These three insatiable drains on our health care system have broken medicine and made the cost of care for middle-class Americans who aren’t on Medicaid or…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (795+ words) After several failed attempts to spin off Pinnacol Assurance through the state budget, supporters are now taking a different route — pushing new legislation that would lay the groundwork to convert Colorado’s workers’ comp program to a private entity. Speaker Julie…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1466+ words) A Colorado Medicaid program was beset with explosive costs and fraud after state officials relied on a flawed analysis and recommended the legislature nearly triple the program’s reimbursement rate, The Denver Post has found. It appeared to set up a…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (606+ words) Thousands of Denver Public Schools employees and their families will be able to keep their doctors with Kaiser Permanente Colorado for an additional year after the Board of Education voted Thursday to extend the district’s contract with the insurer. The…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1751+ words) When Bukola Arije received a slew of new and expanded state tax credits last year to help raise her three children, she saw not only a chance to catch up on bills. She also saw a rare opportunity to take…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1052+ words) In November, Colorado Medicaid officials corrected a mistake. Five years earlier, they’d told contracted transportation providers in metro Denver to bill the state as if the providers were specialty ambulances. By 2022, those providers were billing the state for more than…...