Our Work
A Colorado Health Institute brief –When Insurance Is Not Enough: How Underinsurance Impacts Health and Finances - released today explains underinsurance and why it matters for Coloradans.
We continue to see a lot of interest in our annual Legislation in Review report, which we released last week. The report summarized the trends we saw in health legislation from the 2014 session.
Since the legislative session ended May 7, the Colorado Health Institute has been hard at work analyzing the key health policy trends of 2014.
Hospitals tend to be bellwethers of health care trends. So we applaud the Colorado Hospital Association for issuing a new analysis looking at hospital charges since January 1, when major provisions of the Affordable Care Act kicked in.
We reflected on our work so far this year and reenergized for the coming months during a staff retreat on Monday. Staff members presented TED talks – or CHED talks, as CEO Michele Lueck called them, combining CHI and TED - on everything from market trends to health disparities to how chalk art relates to health care.
It's the race to the finish line for Colorado as it writes an application for a multi-million dollar State Innovation Model grant.
This week, the Colorado Health Institute is working largely outside of our office walls with staff attending conferences here in Colorado, New Orleans and on the East Coast.
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.
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.