Colorado has recognized the importance of extending coverage to populations that lack affordable access to health care, when federal rules allow. In 2009, Colorado’s General Assembly authorized the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) to...
Bethany Pray, Esq.
Articles by Bethany Pray, Esq.
2019 Legislative Preview: Health Care
In 2019, CCLP's Health Care Program aspires to advance affordable health insurance options and address consumers’ out-of-pocket costs. We aim to ensure that nonprofit hospitals are accountable for their community benefit obligations. We will continue our work to...
Tax-code wrinkle could expand Medicaid eligibility
Over the past 20 years, Colorado Center on Law and Policy has challenged Colorado Medicaid on issues ranging from eligibility problems to undecipherable termination of benefits notices. While some of those interactions involved court action or legislation, most have...
Colorado takes steps to shore up markets and protect consumers
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eight years ago, Colorado has jumped on opportunities to improve health care access for its residents, expanding Medicaid coverage and creating a state-based health insurance exchange where Coloradans can take...
Got health coverage? Connect with the exchange
Being part of a community, whether it’s Colorado as a whole, your farming community, Glenwood Springs or Denver’s Westwood neighborhood means that you give and you get. You give your labor, your taxes, your neighborly advice, your willingness to turn the music down,...