Pinnacol Assurance conversion isn’t happening in this budget plan. Here’s why.
When Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee members sit down this week to work out differences between the House and Senate versions of the 2025-26 budget, there…
Health Care
Seemingly conflicting bills around drug-discounting are advancing through Legislature
Given the option between a hospital-backed bill or a pharmaceutical-backed effort to put state guardrails around a federal prescription-drug discounting program, members of the Colorado…
Labor advocates seek to scrap workers’ compensation doctor-choice limits
Unions and labor advocates want to expand the number of doctors that injured workers can choose from for treatment — from the four they now…
Legislators debate costs and benefits of anti-obesity insurance mandate that will raise premiums significantly
Even as Colorado faces a $1 billion budget shortfall and bipartisanly declared affordability crisis, legislators are advancing an anti-obesity insurance mandate that will cost Medicaid…
With threats of doom on both sides, legislators advance bill to cap hospital prices
Legislators are pushing forward on a bill to cap hospital prices for about 260,000 state residents — a move one supporter called the “best bad…
Polis administration proposes cap on some insurance payments to hospitals
Gov. Jared Polis’ office and a group of Democratic legislators want to cap the prices that hospitals can charge Coloradans insured by the state or…
Supporters of single-payer health care hope third time is charm for advancing study bill
For the third year in a row, Colorado Democratic legislators have begun to advance a bill to study the impact of implementing a single-payer health-care…
Legislative health-care debates commence this week with insurance bills
Several health-care bills — including two scheduled for their first hearings this week — are set to reignite the debate this legislative session on whether…
Insurance enterprise shortfall could spur calls for premium fee hike
A Colorado enterprise that offers free health insurance to undocumented immigrants and helps fund the state’s reinsurance program is likely to be short of revenue…
Pinnacol opens up about business losses to build case to become private company
Pinnacol Assurance has lost 10,000 of its 60,000 customers over the past decade because of changing workplace dynamics and must become a fully privatized firm…