Proposed bill would require large Colorado employers to help fund Medicaid, SNAP
Large Colorado businesses with substantial numbers of part-time employees on public benefits would have to help fund Colorado’s Medicaid and SNAP programs under a bill…
Health Care
Hospitals fear Colorado Medicaid changes could force service cuts
Hospitals and healthcare providers worry that one of the key planks of Gov. Jared Polis’ budget-balancing plan this year — efforts to slow the rise…
Polis revives effort to free Pinnacol from state control — for $400 million needed to balance budget
Gov. Jared Polis once again wants to end all government control over Pinnacol Assurance — and this year is banking even more of his budget-balancing…
Colorado insurers face new rules for behavioral-health coverage
Colorado health insurers are forbidden to deny coverage of medically necessary mental-health and substance-abuse treatment and must use nationally accepted standards in making their decisions,…
Polis’ budget cuts target health care, higher education
Two days after the end of a special session that rolled back $153 million in tax breaks to help close a budget shortfall, Gov. Jared…
Colorado is selling tax credits to help balance its budget. Will businesses be interested in buying?
Colorado legislators spent much of the recently adjourned special session reducing tax breaks for businesses. Now, as part of two bills they passed, they also…
Take two: Sponsors nix planned fee hikes as way to boost insurance subsidies
An effort to raise fees on nearly every health-insurance policy sold in Colorado is finished even before Thursday’s special legislative session begins, replaced by an…
Legislators looking again at raising health-insurance fees
In an effort to try and stop a massive exodus of individuals from the private insurance market, Colorado legislators are looking again at raising fees…
Colorado congressional delegation finds some bipartisan agreement on AI, tax-credit extensions
Colorado congressional representatives disagreed on the effects of environmental and budget overhauls but agreed that the job of regulating artificial intelligence belongs to the federal…
Polis calls special session; here is what legislators will debate
Colorado legislators will be returning to the state Capitol on Aug. 21 for a special session to patch a massive hole in the state budget,…