Mandated Health Benefits in Colorado
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Health Care & Health Insurance
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Published
07/02/2018
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Second Regular Session | 74th General Assembly
Colorado General AssemblyRelated Publications
Summary of Major Legislation
Summary of 2024 Heath Care and Health Insurance Legislation
Many pieces of legislation regarding health care and health insurance made their way through the 74th General Assembly. Most of the legislation fell into the following categories: removing barriers to treatment, and licensing requirements.
Issue Briefs
Colorado’s Health Insurance Market
Health insurance is a method of paying or receiving reimbursement for health care costs from covered services. Health insurance companies spread the costs and risk of covered health care services across all members of a plan in exchange for premiums and other cost-sharing mechanisms, such as...
Summary of Major Legislation
Summary of 2024 Behavioral Health Legislation
Addressing the substance use disorder epidemic and providing behavioral health resources to communities throughout Colorado were the two major behavioral health care themes that emerged during the Second Regular Session of the 74th General Assembly. Important behavioral health bills are...
Issue Briefs
Health Care Prior Authorization Practices
Prior authorization—sometimes referred to as preauthorization or precertification—is a process by which an insurer reviews a request for health care services or drugs before consenting to cover the costs of the proposed treatment. Upon receiving a request, an insurer can approve or deny the...
Final/Annual Reports
Colorado Health Insurance Exchange Oversight Committee 2023 Final Report
The committee studies the implementation of Colorado's health exchange. It reviews and approves grants applied for by the exchange's board of directors to implement the exchange, approves the exchange's executive director, and recommends legislation on the operation of the exchange.
Issue Briefs
Medicaid Waiver Programs: Waivers for Children
Colorado currently administers ten Home- and Community-Based Services Medicaid (HCBS) Waivers. This issue brief discusses the four waivers available to children.
Issue Briefs
Medicaid Waiver Programs: Waivers for Adults
Colorado currently administers ten Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid (HCBS) Waivers. This issue brief discusses the six waivers available to adults.
Staff Publications
Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders Study Committee Final Report
The Interim Committee on Opiod and other Substance Use Disorders was created pursuant to Section 10-22.3-101.
Tax Expenditure Evaluation
Organ Donor Employer Credit
Report No. 2023-TE18
Final/Annual Reports
Statewide Health Care Review Committee Final Report
Pursuant to Section 10‑16-221, C.R.S., the Statewide Health Care Review Committee was created to study health care issues across the state.