{"id":807813,"date":"2020-05-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=383969"},"modified":"2020-05-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:00:00","slug":"peak-health-partners-with-bright-health-carrier-through-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-health-partners-with-bright-health-carrier-through-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Health partners with Bright Health carrier through 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakHealth-SDN-022320-5-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakHealth-SDN-022320-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakHealth-SDN-022320-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakHealth-SDN-022320-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakHealth-SDN-022320-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakHealth-SDN-022320-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Peak Health Alliance CEO Tamara Pogue speaks during a Colorado health care forum discussion Feb. 21 at the Summit County Community and Senior Center in Frisco.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>KEYSTONE \u2014 Peak Health Alliance, a nonprofit insurance purchasing collaborative, has chosen Bright Health Plan as its 2021 insurance carrier in all seven counties that use its services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bright Health initially partnered with Peak Health to provide insurance plans for individuals, while small groups and businesses in Summit County were using Rocky Mountain Health Plans. Tuesday\u2019s announcement solidifies Bright Health as the nonprofit\u2019s carrier for all types of plans through 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Businesses who offer Rocky Mountain Health Plans products will be able to continue to do so for the remainder of the year, Peak Health CEO Tamara Pogue said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pogue said Bright Health\u2019s proposal was innovative and showed that the organization knows Summit County well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey came to the table \u2026 with plans that really did show a deep understanding of the needs of Summit County residents,\u201d Pogue said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The partnership means new plans for Peak\u2019s members. The nonprofit will start offering health insurance options for small businesses and individuals, unlimited zero dollar co-pays for doctor visits and greater behavioral health access with the new partnership, according to a Peak Health news release.<\/p>\n<p>The small-business program is considered an Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement plan, which allows employers to pay for their employees\u2019 health insurance premiums through a health reimbursement account that lets employees shop for a product on the individual market, Pogue said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advantage to the individual market is that, because of reinsurance, premiums are a lot lower,\u201d she said. \u201cFor the employer, their dollar will go a lot further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Peak offers individual services in seven counties \u2014 Summit, Lake, Grand, La Plata, Montezuma, Delores and San Juan \u2014 the small-business plan will start with just Summit County-based businesses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it will be a very good option for the employers, especially the Summit area and some of the other rural areas,\u201d Bright Health Colorado Market Director Jodie Uhl said. \u201cThey take advantage of the reinsurance discounts. So that brings the premium down tremendously for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The partnership also means lower co-pays and broad networks for behavioral health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the way that Bright has worked with us to increase reimbursement rates for behavioral health providers because that incentivizes them to actually bill insurance,\u201d Pogue said. \u201cWe know that when a provider is part of a carrier\u2019s network for behavioral health, ultimately it makes it more affordable for a consumer to access using their insurance.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uhl said the company partnered with Centura and other providers in Summit County before it first partnered with Peak in 2019. Continuing the partnership through 2021 just made sense, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a great relationship with Peak and Centura as well and their relationship continues through 2020 as well, so it makes sense to continue a product,\u201d Uhl said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uhl said the company hopes to go into multiyear arrangements with Peak. She said it\u2019s important to Bright Health to have a robust local health care network and that Peak is part of achieving that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis helps all of our members up there access their benefits more and gets them the best cost,\u201d she said. \u201cIf they can stay local and they have the best rates there, that benefits everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/peak-health-partners-with-bright-health-carrier-through-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak Health Alliance CEO Tamara Pogue speaks during a Colorado health care forum discussion Feb. 21 at the Summit County Community and Senior Center in Frisco.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com KEYSTONE \u2014 Peak Health Alliance, a nonprofit insurance purchasing collaborative, has chosen Bright Health Plan as its 2021 insurance carrier in all seven counties that use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 05:01:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}