Colorado’s health insurance marketplace loses one insurer, gains another

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 7/13 2:00A Meg Wingerter

Colorado s individual health insurance marketplace will gain its first new option in three years in 2027, while losing another. Cigna Healthcare announced earlier this year that it would pull out of all states where it offered individual plans,...

Feds send warning letters to 5 Colorado hospitals about their price transparency

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 7/6 2:00A Meg Wingerter

Five Colorado hospitals recevied warning letters from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services saying their price transparency files weren t up to par. Federal law requires hospitals to post a file with all of the prices they charge...

Complaints and violations mount at Colorado’s understaffed nursing homes and assisted living...

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 7/5 2:00A Bruce Finley

After a year in a Colorado nursing home, George McNeill, 79, said he’s OK. He eats three meals a day, has a good roommate, rests easily knowing laundry and cleaning will get done, and gets the help he...

My wait for a psychiatric bed in Denver highlights this nation’s overburdened system (Opinion)

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 6/29 1:01A Helen Santoro

Eight days before my 33rd birthday in April, a social worker at a crisis clinic near Denver determined I was an imminent danger to myself. She placed me on an involuntary 72-hour mental health hold. What came next wasn’t treatment, but a search for...

Colorado’s proposed SNAP ‘soda ban’ likely dead after judge’s ruling

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 6/24 2:00A Meg Wingerter

Colorado s proposed ban on using public food assistance to pay for soft drinks, which already faced a tight approval timeline, is likely dead after a judge on Monday ruled the federal government lacked the power to authorize such changes . U.S....

What to know about U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s background as he runs for Colorado governor

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 6/16 6:27A Nick Coltrain

Editor s note: This story was adapted from an in-depth report by The Denver Post on the Democratic primary candidates for governor , originally published in November, and from other recent Post...

Colorado receives FDA permission to import cheaper drugs — including Ozempic — from Canada

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 6/16 2:00A Meg Wingerter

Colorado finally has federal permission to start importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, but the state may not have any sellers to work with. Lawmakers passed a bill in 2019 that directed the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy...

Sen. John Hickenlooper’s primary challenger argues he’s ‘more of the same.’ Will voters turn on the...

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 6/7 2:00A Seth Klamann

In 23 days, state Sen. Julie Gonzales is hoping Democratic primary voters simmering dissatisfaction  with the party s incumbents will boil over and wash away one of Colorado s longest-standing...

Diana DeGette has served 15 terms in Congress, but has she been effective? Denver voters will decide...

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 5/31 2:00A Elliott Wenzler

In her 16th campaign for Congress, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is making a straightforward pitch: If Denver voters send her back to Washington, D.C., she ll do more with her seat as a seasoned lawmaker...

Aurora VA hospital’s mammogram backlog delayed breast surgeries, inspector general says

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 5/26 2:00A Meg Wingerter

At one point in 2024, a backlog of mammogram results for women receiving care through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System topped 4,800, delaying an unknown number of surgeries, according to a new audit . In...

Top Workplaces 2026: Bloom Healthcare brings primary care home

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 5/13 1:00A Sara Hansen

For Colorado’s most medically complex seniors, a trip to the doctor’s office can feel impossible. Bloom Healthcare built its entire model to eliminate that barrier. The Denver-based organization...

After two years of struggle, lawmakers are poised to rewrite — and scale back — Colorado’s AI...

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 5/10 2:00A Seth Klamann

After two years of task forces, collapsed deals, attempted overhauls and an Elon Musk lawsuit , Colorado lawmakers are finally poised to rewrite and scale back the state s beleaguered artificial...

This Coloradan can plug his brain into a computer. He’s trying to help turn science fiction into...

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 5/10 2:00A Meg Wingerter

ELBERT To say Brandon Patterson s father wasn t fully on board when he first brought up the idea of having electrodes implanted into his brain would be an understatement and their family doesn t mince...

More Coloradans than expected stuck with health insurance marketplace after enhanced subsidies...

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 5/6 2:00A Meg Wingerter

About 4% fewer Coloradans bought health insurance on the individual marketplace and paid their January premiums, but the head of the state s exchange considers that a victory, given both projected drops and the reality in other parts of the...

State budget heads to Gov. Jared Polis after lawmakers wrestle with cuts to disability services

The Denver Post (Healthcare) 4/29 2:00A Nick Coltrain

Colorado’s $46.8 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year will head to Gov. Jared Polis after both chambers of the legislature agreed Tuesday to the final version approved by the powerful budget...