Health-care bills, data-center tax breaks die as they run out of time
Two controversial health-care bills that had been priorities of Gov. Jared Polis’ administration but also had garnered tremendous pushback because of their potential to raise…
Health Care
Colorado Legislature on verge of approving another pharmacy benefit manager reform
Colorado legislators appear poised to pass a pharmacy-benefit-manager reform bill that would require PBMs to be paid by flat fee rather than via the percentage…
Senate passes workers’ compensation overhaul, setting up veto battle
The Colorado Senate on Wednesday approved of a massive change in how injured employees can choose the doctors who will provide their workers’ compensation care,…
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…
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…