Colorado board declares second prescription drug to be unaffordable
Colorado’s precedent-setting Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board has declared a second medication to be unaffordable, setting it up for a possible upper price limit after…
Health Care
Four business-opposed bills, including single-payer health study, die on Tuesday
Colorado legislators allowed the clock to run out on four bills Tuesday that critics warned would raise the already high cost of living, including another…
Business leaders, trial lawyers strike deal on lawsuit damage caps
For the second time in less than a week, legislators reached a compromise Sunday to avert a multimillion-dollar battle on competing ballot initiatives — this…
Medicaid, many private insurers could soon be forced to cover new anti-obesity drugs
Colorado senators are poised to pass a mandate for state-regulated public and private insurance plans to cover new anti-obesity drugs that could cost the state…
Legislators find consensus on “orphan drugs,” even as prescription-drug board faces lawsuit
Supporters and critics of a Colorado board’s decision to consider price caps on life-sustaining drugs for patients with rare diseases have reached a détente after…
Single-payer, take two: House again approves study
For the second year in a row, Colorado House members on Monday passed a bill to study what it would take to create a single-payer…
Committee kills health-care bill when even sponsors won’t defend it
A one-time bill to boost access to primary-care doctors that morphed significantly as it moved through the Colorado House died this week after its Senate…
Legislators OK bill to raise malpractice damage caps — despite trial attorneys’ opposition
As business and trial-attorney groups continue their staredown over a potential ballot battle on lawsuit damage caps, Colorado legislators are advancing a bill that would…
Legislator ends effort to require insurance networks to include all Colorado primary-care docs
A Colorado House leader nixed his plan Tuesday to let state residents keep primary-care providers even when they change jobs or insurers, opting instead for…
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…