healthcare access

If you're not someone who gets health benefits from your employer, now's the time to make sure your insurance is in order for next year. That's because it's currently the open enrollment period to sign up for a health plan. In Colorado, the deadline is December 15 to get coverage that starts on the first of the year. On this week's Health and Prevention Report, Lucas Brady Woods speaks with healthcare provider Axis Health Systems to break down the insurance market and why it's important to be covered.

The days of exponentially high increases in health-insurance costs may finally be in the past for Coloradans according to preliminary projections from the state’s Division of Insurance; At its regular meeting on Tuesday, the Cortez City Council made some changes to this year's city budget and addressed the possibility of an additional city tax on marijuana.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has unveiled which projects it wants to build this year with a one hundred and seventy million dollar stimulus…

Eager to control costs and sickness, hospitals and insurers are trying to help patients access better food, housing and transportation. But so far there is little research showing these efforts work.

The 7-2 decision threw out the challenge to the law, saying Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision and thus lacked standing.

Colorado Democrats have passed a bill they say will eventually lead to lower prices on the individual health insurance market by sparking new competition…

When looking at professions in Montezuma County, farmers are the second most likely group to die by suicide. That’s according to data from Celebrating…

The pandemic ushered in a telemedicine boom, with loosened regulations and greater access.

Over the next year, KSJD is going to be bringing you more news about health, mental health and prevention in our community as part of a bi-weekly health and prevention report. This week, Lucas Brady Woods spoke with Stephanie Allred, the senior clinical director at Axis Health in Cortez, Colorado, about the mental health challenges facing the local community and some of the resources available to help.

A new bill making its way through the Colorado state capitol seeks to give youth free access to mental health services.