Our Work
“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.
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.
Maybe it’s something in the water. At least that’s what Jeff Bontrager, Director of Research on Coverage and Access, speculated during our Monday morning staff meeting as he told us about all of the information requests that are coming our way.
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.
Welcome to the Colorado Health Institute’s first Legislative Roundup of 2014. We are tracking the introduction and progress of all health-related legislation. Here are bills that we have been paying particular attention to, complete with sponsors, status updates and a brief explanation.
If you haven’t already, be sure to read our latest report - Colorado’s Primary Care Workforce: A Study of Regional Disparities – launched last week. Lead author, Rebecca Alderfer, was interviewed by Ryan Warner for Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio and appeared on Fox31 Denver News.
A new study released today by the Colorado Health Institute, Colorado’s Primary Care Workforce: A Study of Regional Disparities, provides an in-depth picture of the state’s primary care workforce, both statewide and across 21 regions.
The full team is back in town with lots of new knowledge to inform our work following travels to the East Coast and southwestern Colorado. And it’s going to be quite a week.
Dental advocates, legislators, oral health providers, students from Rocky Mountain Prep and the tooth fairy herself gathered at the Capitol this morning to recognize the importance of a healthy mouth.