Woo-hoo! The Senate today passed HB1138: Colorado Health Service Corps, which will allow our state to more efficiently & effectively administer the state healthcare professional loan repayment program. The bill also rebrands the state healthcare professional loan repayment program, lovingly referred to as SLRP. The name, the Colorado Health...

A group of 37 Democratic senators asked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to revise the proposed meaningful use plan so that providers could have more flexibility in meeting the deadlines for satisfying some of the criteria for the financial incentives. Click here for the full story.

We are 5 weeks away from the end of the 2010 Colorado Legislative Session and yet I think the political fun is just about to begin! The House and Senate have both passed the FY10-11 budget, though differences between the bills still need to be ironed out. Once a...

I wanted to post a link to this resource published every year by the Colorado Legislative Council staff. This was just published in March. It’s a great overview of health care issues in Colorado and provides an understanding of how the state spends healthcare dollars within each healthcare department.