CMS launches Connect for Health Colorado guide

Friday, September 06, 2013 02:28 PM

Download new members-only guide and read Colorado Medicine coverage

Starting Oct. 1, consumers and small businesses will be able to shop for and purchase health insurance through the state’s new insurance marketplace, Connect for Health Colorado. Experts hope this phase of health care reform will spur competition and make it easier to bridge the gap for uninsured populations.

The latest issue of the Colorado Medicine explores how Connect for Health Colorado will increase access to health insurance and why Colorado as a whole will benefit from having a state-facilitated exchange.

Additionally, CMS policy staff have developed a new resource to help physician members understand and prepare for up to 240,000 newly insured patients that are projected in 2014 thanks to the exchange. “Connect for Health Colorado: A Physician’s Guide to the State’s Health Insurance Exchange” covers important topics including:

• Participating health plans;
• Patient churn between these new marketplace products and Medicaid;
• 90-day grace period and how your practice may not be reimbursed for services delivered to patients that don’t pay premiums; and
• Impacts of patient cost sharing.

Click here to go to the Covering Colorado page of CMS.org to download “A Physician’s Guide to the State’s Health Insurance Exchange” and learn about these issues and more. Please note that this content is for members only. If you have any issues with your member log-in, contact Tim Yanetta at tim_yanetta@cms.org.

Click here to view the online version of the September/October issue of Colorado Medicine and to read the cover story “Covering Colorado.” Also in this issue are features on the new health insurance cooperative, Colorado HealthOP; Colorado’s State Innovation Model grant; the federal Sunshine Act; the launch of Choosing Wisely Colorado; and more.