In new regulatory filings, insurers say they cannot lower prices enough to meet the Colorado Option’s goals
John Ingold
John Ingold is a co-founder of The Colorado Sun and a reporter currently specializing in health care coverage.
Born and raised in Colorado Springs, John spent 18 years working at The Denver Post. Prior to that, he held internships at the Rocky Ford Daily Gazette, the Colorado Springs Gazette and the Rocky Mountain News, among other publications. He also interned one summer in the public relations office at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, where he got to sit on an elephant's knee and get his photo taken.
John was part of The Denver Post's 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning breaking news team for its coverage of a shooting at an Aurora movie theater, and, in 2015, he was a Pulitzer finalist for a series he wrote on parents whose children suffer from a rare form of epilepsy and the help they hoped to find through Colorado's medical marijuana system.
Email: johningold@coloradosun.com Twitter: @johningold
Posted inHealth
Colorado’s push to lower hospital costs has a catch: The state also needs hospitals’ money
Hospitals say House Bill 1215, which would limit their ability to charge facility fees, will ultimately impact funding for Medicaid
Posted inHealth
Colorado lawmakers are targeting hospital facility fees. Here’s why that’s a big deal.
House Bill 1215 would ban hospitals from charging facility fees for most outpatient visits, ending what proponents say is an unnecessary add-on that boosts hospitals’ bottom line
Posted inHealth
Centura Health, one of Colorado’s largest hospital systems, announces its breakup
CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth say they will manage their hospitals separately
Posted inHealth
A rural Colorado hospital was down to its last dollar. This is how it came back.
As small-town hospitals across the state struggle, Memorial Regional Health’s financial rebound shows how it is possible — but also perhaps painful — to get back into the black
Posted inMarijuana
A new study on marijuana legalization in Colorado answers the question: Has legal pot made other drug problems worse?
A study by researchers at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota uses long-term data on twins to assess the impacts of cannabis legalization
Posted inHealth
Two Colorado health care giants are forming one big insurance network. But will consumers actually benefit?
UCHealth and Intermountain Healthcare are creating a “clinically integrated network” that gives patients whose insurance contracts with them access to their physicians, clinics and hospitals
Posted inHealth
Colorado Option sign-up numbers are in. But the debate over the Jared Polis-backed insurance plan is far from over.
Approximately 35,000 people signed up for Colorado Option health insurance plans during the most recent open enrollment period
Posted inPolitics and Government
Denver bought one-way bus tickets for 1,900 migrants. Here’s where they were going.
Some of the top destinations were Chicago, New York City, Atlanta, Miami and Dallas
Posted inCOVID
Do Coloradans need to care about the new COVID variant XBB? Yeah, probably.
XBB.1.5 — nicknamed the “Kraken” — has yet to hit Colorado in full force. When it does, it could drive a new wave of infections.