ARCHIVED  July 1, 1996

Frontier HMO vies for region

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Frontier Community Health Plans Inc. of Englewood has expanded its health-maintenance organization into Larimer County and is negotiating to enter
Weld County.

The year-old HMO originally served only the Denver area but now serves 12 counties, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, El
Paso, Elbert, Fremont, Jefferson, Larimer, Pueblo and Teller counties.

Joel Edelman, executive vice president of Frontier, said the HMO intends to establish a statewide network.

“We have to be statewide, ultimately, if we’re going to be really successful,” Edelman said, adding that Frontier would like to be statewide by early
1997.

The HMO now claims about 3,000…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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