The Colorado Division of Insurance will be keeping a closer eye on insurance companies and their ever-increasing proposals to raise premium levels.
The division will use a $4 million, three-year federal grant to more accurately and efficiently review the rate increase proposals. Last year, insurance carriers in Colorado increased their rates on average of 9 percent.
The [...] [...]
Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work.
IBM’s supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world’s best “Jeopardy!” players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation’s largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments.
WellPoint Inc., which has 34.2 million members, will integrate Watson’s lightning speed and [...] [...]
A new health insurance website launched today from the Colorado Division of Insurance hopes to answer the questions about the cost of health insurance — questions that plague Coloradans, officials said.
“This new website will help arm consumers with the facts on what drives the cost of health insurance premiums, how to shop smart for health [...] [...]
The number of Colorado small businesses providing health benefits to their employees in 2010 fell 10 percent from the year before, according to a report from the Colorado Division of Insurance.
In the last decade, the number of Coloradans with health insurance from a small business employer dropped 50 percent from 537,996 in 2000 to 267,411 in [...] [...]
Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed into law a bill intended to pull children’s health insurers back into Colorado’s market.
Senate Bill 128, sponsored by state Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, would require any company that offers individual adult health insurance policies in the state to offer individual children’s policies as well.
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There is no shortage of opinions about the impact of Federal health care reform.
For those of us who own or manage businesses, opinions are terrific material for water cooler speculation, but the real challenge we must face is to understand the practical impact of health care reform on our businesses, the people we employ and, [...] [...]
A new health insurance plan to cover people with pre-existing conditions is now available in Colorado.
The plan began accepting customers today. Gov. Bill Ritter says providing insurance for people who've suffered from diseases could reduce the cost of health care.
The plan is a result of health care reform passed by Congress this year and will be phased out in 2014 when the core parts of that legislation takes effect.
Colorado is one of 29 states that will administer their own plans. The federal government will run the program in the remaining 21 states. [...]
Colorado’s workers are paying a higher share of health insurance premiums than their counterparts in the rest of the nation.
The Colorado Division of Insurance released its annual report this week, and reported that while premiums in Colorado mirror increases nationwide, employees shoulder more of the payment than the national average.
More Coloradans were also covered by [...] [...]
Transparency, standardization and efficiency.
That’s what legislation this session would require insurance companies to include when writing policies.
Here are some of the health care bills:
House Bill 1038 seeks to establish a database of claims throughout the state to better understand how Colorado is spending its health care dollars. The information from the database will be used [...] [...]
The medical billing field has been affected by the recession and higher unemployment, which means more people using emergency rooms are opting to self-pay — without insurance.
During 2009, the self-pay population increased from 25 percent to 30 percent at ATD Resources LLC in Lakewood, a medical billing company that specializes in billing for 60 physicians [...] [...]
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