Negotiations defuse concerns about workers’ compensation bill
An expected high-profile legislative debate over expansion of workers’ compensation benefits has ended even before it started, as business groups and workers’ comp attorneys agreed…
Health Care
Two recent votes could impact future of Colorado’s prescription-drug pricing board
Colorado’s three-year-old Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board is reaching a major crossroads, as it is embarking on its first effort to set an upper payment…
Attorney group, business leaders file dueling ballot measures on damage awards in lawsuits
Colorado trial lawyers and business leaders have filed a quartet of ballot initiatives over the past week that are likely to lead to a big-money…
Bill could add primary-care doctors to every health-insurance network
A top Colorado House leader has introduced a bill intended to allow state residents to maintain their primary-care providers even if they switch insurers —…
Colorado board casts unanimous vote on first drug whose affordability it considers
With statewide and national attention focused on it, Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board declined its first opportunity Friday to move toward capping prices on…
Coming vote on prescription drug affordability holds major consequences
Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board will vote for the first time on Dec. 8 whether a medication is so unaffordable that the state should…
Maturing Colorado Option reaches inflection point
As the Colorado Option insurance program moves into its second year, analysts parse numbers to evaluate its success. No, most plans won’t hit 10% premium-reduction…
Colorado board picks first five drugs for affordability reviews
Two years into existence, Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board on Friday selected its first five drugs to undergo an affordability review — including one…
Health-care companies get mixed bag in 2023 legislative session
In many ways, the outcome of the 2023 legislative session for the health-care industry mirrored that of business in general: Employers fought off potentially stifling…
Bill to study single-payer health-care system dies in Senate
Colorado legislators quietly killed a bill Sunday to study implementation of a single-payer health-care system, letting it die on the Senate calendar rather than give…