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Another Monday at the Colorado Health Institute means another opportunity to look back at our successes and set the stage for what’s to come this week. And with daylight savings back in place, it means we’ll have an extra hour of sunlight every day for health-related data and analysis.
If a child’s parent or guardian has a change in circumstances that affects eligibility for public health insurance, does the child lose coverage? In Colorado, the answer – as of Tuesday - is no.
Do freestanding for-profit emergency rooms fill a consumer demand? Or are they driving up health care costs? Or is it a bit of both?
This paper provides a broad understanding of the theory and goals of cost-sharing, examines the evidence of its ability to curb costs, and looks at whether cost-sharing impacts the use of health care and, ultimately, health outcomes.
“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” the saying goes. Here at the Colorado Health Institute, March will be coming in and going out like a lion with a number of launches and publications on the agenda for this month.
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.
We are almost halfway through the session, and our team at CHI continues to track the introduction and progress of health-related legislation.
Health care costs are high. This week we presented information on market-based solutions to this problem and released a report on cost-sharing, one of the most common and fastest changing approaches to containing health care spending.
Colorado’s Medicaid program has grown significantly since the legislature approved Medicaid expansion last year, welcoming thousands of newly-eligible enrollees. We are seeing several bills during this session that aim to improve and streamline the Medicaid program, including House Bill 14-1115, which the House Public Health Care and Human Services Committee passed this week.