As Colorado lawmakers prepare for the upcoming 2021 legislative session, the state’s public option proposal, referred to here as the “state government option,” will once again be up for consideration. Previously, FTI Consulting detailed how the policy could prove detrimental to health care providers while resulting in marginal coverage gains in the state.
In this brief, FTI Consulting revisits our analysis of the state government option to update our impact findings with the most recently proposed state government option hospital payment rates and to understand how the proposal could affect vulnerable populations, particularly those in communities that rely on hospitals that would be at high financial risk—meaning they would face losses of $1 million or more—under the new system.
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