Select Health begins offering plans in region

Select Health, the nonprofit health plan of Intermountain Health that serves more than 1 million members in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, began offering enrollment Monday for Medicare patients in 16 Colorado counties.

“We’ve spent the last 10 months contracting and credentialing 11,000 providers in the state,” said Curt Howell, market president for Select Health’s Peaks Region, which includes Colorado., “It’s nothing short of an incredible amount of work to do that, but we are really well-positioned.”

Medicare annual enrollments will extend through Dec. 7, he said, with an effective date of Jan. 1. Enrollment for individual or family plans or plans through…