Bipartisan alternative emerges to bill seeking to cap hospitals’ reimbursements
With a controversial bill to cap insurance payments to hospitals idling in the House without a reliable path to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk, hospitals are…
Health Care
Legislature sends twice-killed single-payer-healthcare study bill to Polis for first time
Following two years in which it died on the Senate clock at the end of the legislative session, a bill to study converting Colorado to…
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…
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…