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Publications Tagged With "health insurance"
Exchange Implementation in Colorado: Engaging the Consumer Perspective
In May 2011, the Colorado General Assembly passed, and the Governor signed into law, Senate Bill 11-200 which authorized creation ...
Health Law and Policy Update: Health reform law approaches second anniversary
This week's updates Health reform law approaches second anniversary HHS releases final exchange and Medicaid regulations Covering...
Health Law and Policy Update: High court in Maine upholds premium rate-review authority
This week's updates High court in Maine upholds premium rate-review authority Hospital Payment Assistance Act passes out of Appro...
Health Law and Policy Update: Amended Hospital Payment Assistance Act passes unanimously out of committee
This week's updates Amended Hospital Payment Assistance Act passes unanimously out of committee Colorado exchange awarded $17.9 m...
Health Law and Policy Update: Committee delays action on Hospital Payment Assistance Act while parties negotiate
This week's updates Committee delays action on Hospital Payment Assistance Act while parties negotiate Exchange board plans key d...
Health Law and Policy Update: White House report notes business participation in Colorado health exchange
This week's updates White House report notes business participation in Colorado health exchange Individual mandate will halve num...
Health Law and Policy Update: Threats and rhetoric around health reform persist at the Colorado General Assembly
This week's updates Threats and rhetoric around health reform persist at the Colorado General Assembly Colorado House passes reso...
Health Law and Policy Update: Governor addresses health reform victories and Medicaid challenges
This week's updates Governor addresses health reform victories and Medicaid challenges Medicaid the top priority for CCLP's Healt...
Health Law and Policy Update: Exchange completes hiring executive director, approves grant application
This week's updates Exchange completes hiring executive director, approves grant application Department of Health and Human Servi...
Health Law and Policy Update: Five bidders make pitches for Memorial Health System
This week's updates Five bidders make pitches for Memorial Health System Exchange officials move on executive director, grant app...
Health Law and Policy Update: Broker fees counted as administrative cost under new rule
This week's updates Broker fees counted as administrative cost under new rule Exchange board selects executive director, elects o...
Health Law and Policy Update: Suthers approves HealthONE hospital deal, with conditions
This week's updates Suthers approves HealthONE hospital deal, with conditions Old Age Pension crackdown saved money but led to 'h...
Health Law and Policy Update: Consumers want choice, affordable prices from health exchange, research shows
This week's updates Consumers want choice, affordable prices from health exchange, research shows Health groups join physicians s...
Health Law and Policy Update: Health exchange grant application delayed
This week's updates Health exchange grant application delayed U.S. Justice Department seeks Supreme Court review in health reform...
Health Law and Policy Update: President's budget plan a balanced approach but contains troubling health-care provisions
This week's updates President's budget plan a balanced approach but contains troubling health-care provisions Colorado Health Ben...
Health Law and Policy Update: More Coloradans have health insurance
This week's updates More in Colorado have health insurance, new Census Bureau figures show Federal court in Pennsylvania rules pa...
More Coloradans have health insurance despite increasing poverty, demonstrating safety net’s value
Data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show increasing poverty in Colorado and a simultaneous decrease in the number of peo...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Health exchange officials working though comments on federal rules Website helps consumers understand health ...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Colorado Health Benefit Exchange Board gets down to business Legislative Audit Committee meets to discuss CMS...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Exchange board picks Hammer as chairwoman Community health centers will more than double their workforce Appe...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Federal budget negotiations unresolved Former official raises questions about Colorado Health Foundation tran...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Colorado's Health Benefit Exchange Board holds first meeting Exchange board composition a continuing concern ...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Review finds extensive problems with benefits processing, calls on Colorado to comply with the law Pressure r...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Rep. Jim Riesberg appointed Colorado insurance commissioner Health Benefit Exchange Board appointments indust...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates Governor signs Colorado Health Benefit Exchange into law Governor saves health insurance coverage for 2,400 c...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates: Grant will help people eligible for Medicaid and Medicare Committee rejects bill that could have damaged com...
Health Law and Policy Update
This week's updates: Insurance commissioners delay vote on measure to weaken MLR Exchange bill passes Senate committee, needs you...
Health Law and Policy Update
Headlines of the week Health reform repeal fails in Senate As expected, a measure to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
Health Law and Policy Update
Headlines of the week Judge dismisses another legal challenge to health reformIn a decision released today, Judge Susan Wigenton o...
Health Law and Policy Update
Voters reject Amendment 63 Colorado Amendment 63 failed in Tuesday's election as voters saw through proponents' faulty arguments t...
Health Law and Policy Update
Headlines of the week Amendment 63 the most extreme among anti-reform measuresProposed Amendment 63, one of a number of anti-healt...
Getting Colorado covered: Sept. 23 reforms are vital steps toward accessible, affordable health care
Sept. 23 marks the date of implementation of some of the most anticipated consumer protections included in the Patient Protection ...
Health Law and Policy Update
Headlines of the week Colorado Anthem customers will share $20 million settlement About 90,000 customers of the Anthem Blue Cross ...
First complete snapshot of Great Recession underscores the importance of Medicaid
Data the U.S. Census Bureau released today examine health insurance, poverty and income. Because of small sample sizes, two-year a...
Health Law and Policy Update
Headlines of the week Sebelius asks health plans to stop blaming rate increases on the Affordable Care Act In a letter sent this w...
Risky ‘wellness’ bill puts insurance companies in charge
Colorado lawmakers should take a more critical look at an effort to let insurance companies offer discounts to customers as incent...
Case studies: The human impact of 2010 health care reform
In an effort to clarify the specific impacts of the health care legislation in Congress, an analysis was conducted on different pe...
FACT SHEET: Colorado Health Insurance
The trend in overall health insurance coverage among Coloradans is one away from private insurance and toward public coverage or n...
New Health Insurance Data Reinforces Need for Reform
Roughly 16.1 percent of Coloradans—an average of 790,500 people—lacked health coverage in 2007-2008, according to Cens...
Health Care: 2008 Legislative Session in Review
The 2008 Legislature began to lay a foundation for reform by making investments and improvements in health care infrastructure and...
House Passes New Children’s Health Insurance Legislation
The U.S. House of Representatives voted today on a new compromise that would reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insuran...
Time for Congress to fix President’s mistake on health care
The President’s veto of legislation reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is misguided. ...
The SCHIP Reauthorization Debate
Few issues are as critical as providing health care to children in this country. To address children’s access to health care...
Update on State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization
Both the U.S. House and Senate passed their respective SCHIP Reauthorization packages this week. In the House, H.R. 3162, the Chil...
Priorities for SCHIP Reauthorization
SCHIP reauthorization is an important opportunity to make needed progress toward ensuring all of America’s children have hea...
SCHIP Reauthorization is Important to Colorado’s Children
Thanks to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), America’s children are more likely to have access to ...