About

Our Mission

We promote the overall wellbeing of our members by expanding employers’ ability to deliver valued, holistic health benefits and mitigate the rising cost of healthcare.

Who we are

We’re a team of health benefits professionals rallied around a common vision – creating a world where living healthily is easy. We want to live in that world and our plan members tell us they do, too. We use that shared vision as motivation to constantly improve the health insurance plans and wellness programs we offer to employees at the organizations we work with.

How we do what we do

The CU Health Plan creates health insurance plans and wellness programs designed specifically to meet the needs of the people we serve. We’re a self-funded health plan operating as a 501(c)(9) Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association Trust. We partner with HR department leaders to determine the needs of their employees and collaborate on solutions – from education to creative enhancements of benefits. We save employers money because we do not operate for profit.

A bit about our roots

Our mission to create healthy workforces started in 2010 when the University of Colorado launched the CU Health and Welfare Trust in order to mitigate rising healthcare costs by self-funding employee health insurance. Since then, we’ve served hundreds of thousands of employees, and their dependents, at the University of Colorado and CU Medicine.

The future we’re building

We’re determined to make sure living healthily is easy, for our current members and employees at any organization that wants better health benefit solutions. We want everyone in Colorado to know what it’s like to have health benefits they can afford and still want to use.