How Many EBNE Children are Hispanic?
Outreach and enrollment specialists try to target particular communities where there are high concentrations of uninsured yet eligible children. In addition to the location of these children—see the...
View ArticleAn Influx of Insured Coloradans
Expect about 510,000 Coloradans to become newly insured by 2016 under regulations included in the Affordable Care Act, the federal health reform law (that is, if the Supreme Court upholds its...
View ArticleDo Colorado's Most Vulnerable Have Access to Specialty Care?
CHI’s health policy analysis includes a focus on ensuring access to primary care. Having a primary care medical home increases access to needed preventive care, hopefully avoiding more serious...
View ArticleA Wave of Aging Coloradans
The Colorado State Demography Office projects that there will be a significant shift in the population distribution in the state over the next few decades, in large part due to the aging of the “baby...
View ArticleEstimating Eligibility for Colorado's Medicaid Expansion by County
The Colorado Health Care Affordability Act (HB09-1293, or the CHCAA) extends Medicaid eligibility to adults without dependent children (AwDCs) with incomes at or below 100 percent of the federal...
View ArticleThe Colorado Medicaid ACC Meets Enrollment Goal
A growing number of Medicaid clients are enrolling in the state’s experimental Medicaid Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC). The goal of this pilot project is to improve care quality, provide better...
View ArticleLegislative Forecast: Health Care Policy Trends to Anticipate in 2013
What is the political climate in Colorado coming out of the November elections and what are the key health care themes that we can expect in the 2013 legislative session? CHI's Director of Legislative...
View Article2013 Budgets and Strategies: Colorado's Health Agencies
Wondering where Colorado's health agencies are headed in 2013? At this webinar, CHI experts presented an overview of Colorado's health-related state agencies: the Colorado Department of Public Health...
View ArticleCoverage and Your Constituents: Colorado’s Changing Health Insurance...
Each legislative session, CHI hosts four Health Policy Roundtables for legislators. This presentation was given by CHI's president/CEO Michele Lueck at the Capitol on January 28, 2013. Colorado will...
View ArticleExpanding Medicaid: A Colorado Decision
In this presentation given to legislators on February 28, 2013, CHI's Michele Lueck and Jeff Bontrager answer the following questions about Colorado's Medicaid expansion decision: 1. What's at stake?...
View ArticleHealthWords 2013
Read HealthWords 2013 in Flip Book Format. The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) offers HealthWords, a glossary, to help navigate...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion and Newly Eligible Coloradans: A Demographic Portrait
A number of analyses have looked at the costs, ...
View ArticleColorado's Vision for Health: A Colorado Health Institute Analysis
Governor John Hickenlooper today unveiled his plan for improving ...
View Article2013 Legislation in Review
This report captures the key health policy trends of the 2013 Colorado legislative session, including: ...
View ArticleHealth Reform
The Colorado Health Institute has provided research, analysis, context and understanding about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since it became law on March 23, 2010. As the centerpiece of health reform –...
View ArticleThe Colorado Health Institute's Annual Legislative Forecast: Health Care...
Anticipating the 2014 legislative session through the prism of health care policy. The Colorado Health Institute projects that it will be a year in which health care legislation is likely to be...
View Article2014 Legislative Lunch & Learn Series
The 2014 Legislative Lunch & Learn Series featured presentations on health reform, Colorado's primary care workforce and market-based solutions to control health care costs. The presentations are...
View Article2014 Legislative Lunch & Learn Series
The Colorado Health Institute made three presentations to lawmakers as part of the 2014 Legislative Lunch and Learn Series. This year the series focused on health reform, the primary care workforce in...
View ArticleSharing the Cost: A Changing Landscape
“Sharing the Cost: A Changing Landscape,” looks at the increasing use of consumer cost-sharing in the health insurance market. It provides a broad understanding of the theory and goals of cost-sharing,...
View ArticleTracking the Affordable Care Commission
The Colorado Commission on Affordable Health Care will spend three years studying and recommending ways to reduce health care costs. We will follow the commission and produce an issue of our...
View ArticleReimbursement Parity: Will More Colorado Doctors Accept Medicaid?
Colorado will continue the higher Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care doctors included in the Affordable Care Act, making it ...
View ArticleHealthy Competition
The Colorado Health Institute analyzes the 2014 U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sen. Ma...
View Article2015 Legislative Preview: What to Expect When You're Expecting Gridlock
Winds of change are blowing at the Colorado Legislature. With Republicans now in control of the Senate and Democrats retaining the House majority, it seems like a formula for gridlock. But could it be...
View ArticleLegislative Preview: Winds of Change
With Republicans taking over the state Senate, neither party can c...
View Article2015 Legislative Learning Series
Check out our latest recorded presentations "Waiving Goodbye: Can Colorado Really Rewrite ...
View Article2015 Legislation In Review
From telehealth to advanced practice nurses to marijuana, Colorado's legislators in 2015 looked for wa...
View ArticleNoteworthy Numbers
The Colorado Health Institute knows you’re busy. And we know you’ve already read about Connect for Health Colorado’s budget three times, studied payment and delivery reform ideas from four different...
View ArticleAnnual Legislative Preview: High Stakes for Health
Health policy will play a starring ro...
View ArticleAid in Dying
Our own mortality is hard to think about. It’s an emotional, complex and often pai...
View ArticleAmendment 72: An Independent Analysis
Amendment 72 on Colorado’s ballot would raise the state’s tobacco taxes...
View ArticleHot Issues in Health Care
The Colorado Health Institute’s 2016 Hot Issues in Health Care conference drew record attendance. The conference focused on the future of the Affordable Care Act and health reform under a Trump...
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