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The Colorado Health Institute explores the financial burden of medical bills in our latest brief. This is particularly timely as the nation begins to assess the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in meeting its goal of limiting the financial exposure to medical expenses.
The Colorado Health Institute released a report that gives a detailed picture of Colorado’s uninsured population through a series of 17 maps, an analysis revealing significant statewide variations in demographic and geographic characteristics.
We hope you’ve seen the Colorado Health Institute’s new publication analyzing Colorado’s uninsured population, our first entirely map-based report.
The next open enrollment period for private insurance doesn’t begin until November, but planning has already begun in Colorado for outreach and enrollment efforts next time around.
Now that the 2014 legislative session has come to an end, exhausted lawmakers are thrilled to finally have a break. But here at the Colorado Health Institute, our work is just beginning.
Coloradans covered by Medicaid are more likely to go to the emergency department (ED) than those with other types of insurance, though the rate for Medicaid enrollees has declined in recent years.
Many health policy experts extol the virtues of transparency as an effective way to generate competition in the health insurance and health care markets. They expect that consumers who better understand what they are paying for will make informed – what economists call rational - decisions.
Michele Lueck, our CEO, was a panelist last week during a conference at the University of Pennsylvania looking at early results of a national study tracking the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
CHI analyzed the factors associated with lower insurance rates among Colorado’s Hispanic adult population.
Presentations from the Colorado Hospital Association’s 2014 Rural Hospital Conference.