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The highest uninsured rate was 12.6% in the I-70 mountain corridor counties of Summit, Pitkin, Eagle, Garfield and Grand.
The number of uninsured Coloradans reached historic lows in 2023, early results from the Colorado Health Institute’s Colorado Health Access Survey showed.
The uninsured rate dropped to 4.6% in 2023, after staying at roughly 6.5% since 2015, the group said, noting it’s the lowest level in the survey’s history.
But the survey notably doesn’t reflect the end of the public health emergency that resulted in millions being dropped off Medicaid rolls nationwide.
In Colorado, that’s about 300,000 people. In May and June alone, more than 100,000 Coloradans were “disenrolled” from Medicaid.
The state is taking advantage of the full year allowed under federal law to complete renewals for all 1.75 million Coloradans enrolled on Medicaid. That period will last until at least April 2024, according to the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
The group’s survey said the Western Slope continues to have the highest uninsured population in the state, but the group didn’t have data from some of the Front Range’s largest counties, including Boulder, Broomfield, Douglas and Larimer. The group said these areas yielded “insufficient data to report results.” The group didn’t explain why.
> Read the full story at Colorado Politics.
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