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The Coloradoan reporter Nick Coltrain writes about efforts to provide health care for those newly insured byMedicaid in Colorado. Read the story here.

The ability of Coloradans to access health care has improved over the past two years, according to findings from the new Colorado Access to Care Index released today.

Colorado’s index score increased to 7.9 in 2015 from 7.7 in 2013, both out of a possible 10 points. Scores for the state’s 21 health statics regions, as well as scores by income and ethnicity, are available on the Colorado Health Institute website.

The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) today released an analysis of the 2016 health insurance rates approved by the state’s Division of Insurance.

The rates will rise an average of seven percent next year compared with a 1.2 percent hike in 2015.

CHI’s takeaways include:

The Colorado Health Institute is going on the road, and we'd like to meet you — wherever you live in Colorado.

The Coloradoan reports on a presentation that Colorado Health Institute Policy Analyst Allie Morgan gave in Fort Collins. Read the story here.

The Denver Business Journal cites the Colorado Health Institute report Reaching Our Peak 2015: Scorecard for a Healthier Colorado. Read the story here.

The Fort Morgan Times reports on factors identified by the Colorado Health Institute as the best community-level predictors of whether residents in a given ZIP code are likely to be uninsured. Read the story here.

The Durango Herald spoke with Jeff Bontrager, the Colorado Health Institute’s Director of Research on Coverage and Access. Read the story here.