Denver Health officials, Colorado lawmakers, health care experts and city officials spoke about the city’s safety-net hospital financial predicament, what could happen if it failed and what it woul...
Colorado’s Medicaid rolls are essentially back to where they were pre-pandemic after a year... Every Child has four safety net clinics in the Denver area and eight school health centers...
Less than a year into the process of removing Coloradans from Medicaid after the COVID-19 public health emergency, community health centers across the state are struggling to serve an increasing uninsured population, with one resorting to layoffs to offset the drop in revenue. All states except Hawaii are seeing a decrease in their Medicaid rolls as they remove ineligible people for the first time since a federal freeze on disenrollments early in the pandemic. But safety-net providers are worried a higher percentage of people who should qualify ...
In 2023, Denver Health provided about $136 million in care that it didn't receive compensation for, CEO Donna Lynne told Denver City Council's finance and government committee last week
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing sent out the first renewal notices in March and began reassessing members' eligibility for Medicaid in May.
The Congressional Budget Office this week estimated that 24 million more people nationwide would be uninsured by 2026 under the Republican’s health care bill, the American Health Care Act, than if the current law remained in place · Many of those losses come from Medicaid enrollment, but what does that mean for Colorado? We have answers. In a single sentence: It’s a joint state-federal program to provide health care for the poor and low-income. Get up to speed on all the intricate details ...
A top health official has warned that Denver's health system is on the verge of collapse due to a flood of illegal immigrants using its services
About 325,000 people in Colorado are expected to be disenrolled from Medicaid as federal rules requiring states to keep them on during the COVID-19 public health emergency come to an end.
But when the emergency ended this year, people started losing Medicaid insurance, including up to 325,000 people in Colorado. For Denver Health, that means patients whose coverage would...
Virtual Urgent Care is now available for Denver Health MyChart users and new patients. It’s easy and convenient to get the urgent care you need from the comfort of your home, using your smartphone,...