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Colorado insurance rates will be more expensive than Polis administration promised
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Colorado’s insurance premiums will increase by double digits in the individual pool and by a substantial amount in the small group market next year, rate changes the state released on Tuesday show, leading the trade association for health insurers to argue that the Polis administration “chose politics over math.” Coloradans face a 7.4% hike…
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Humana to withdraw from the employer health insurance market in Colorado
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Humana, which provides health insurance to small businesses in Colorado, intends to withdraw from the Colorado employer group market within the next 18 months, Colorado Politics has learned. The company has not formally announced its withdrawal. Humana did not return inquiries from Colorado Politics. Humana announced its intention to leave the state market in a letter sent…
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Enrollment on Colorado insurance marketplace jumps 14% compared to last November
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More than 50,500 Coloradans signed up for health insurance via the Connect for Health Colorado marketplace through Monday, a 14% increase from the same period last year. Division of Insurance cancels part of federal waiver on Colorado Option that critics called price-fixing Open enrollment began Nov. 1 and will close Jan. 15. Three-quarters of applicants…
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Division of Insurance cancels part of federal waiver on Colorado Option that critics called price-fixing
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Colorado is moving forward on its plans to launch its state-designed standardized health insurance plan for individual and small group markets, but a waiver the state planned to pursue with the federal government had health care providers, including insurance companies, fuming. Critics said a portion of the waiver is an attempt at arbitrary price-fixing that could limit…
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One of the bigs in health insurance will stay another year in Colorado
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The Colorado Division of Insurance announced Wednesday that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado has committed to serving the individual insurance market statewide for 2018. That includes the 14 hard-pressed counties where Anthem is the only option available through the state’s health-insurance exchange, which offers eligible plan members tax credits to defray the soaring…
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Rural health prices a fact of life, Colorado concludes
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Colorado’s rural areas can’t escape higher health insurance costs because it’s costlier to deliver health care, the state Division of Insurance concluded Monday in a study on Colorado’s nine geographic rating regions. The insurance regulators were ordered to study the problem of higher insurance prices on the Western Slope and in other rural areas. State lawmakers from rural areas have…
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Keyser demands outside group revoke Glenn nod after rival questions Bronze Star stories
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser called on a powerful conservative organization to rescind its endorsement of a primary opponent on Thursday after El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn questioned whether Keyser has been straight with voters about the activities that led to the Air Force intelligence officer winning a Bronze Star. Glenn, for his…
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Republicans lash news health insurance rates could soar, companies dropping coverage
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Republicans reacted angrily to news that 92,000 Coloradans could have to shop around for new health insurance plans and others could face rate increases as high as 40 percent, while U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said Congress has to do more to curb rising health care costs. The Division of Insurance announced Tuesday that some health…
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Romanoff: Colorado could be national leader in mental health
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When you’re raised by a social worker and a prosecutor, you hear a lot about mental health. My mother spent her first year in graduate school performing social work at a state mental institution. Her father, a psychiatrist, conducted evaluations at the same facility. But eventually that hospital, like many others around the country, was…
