About RFVCHP

A Community Partnership


The Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan (RFVCHP) is a community-oriented, not-for-profit corporation that promotes competitively priced, accessible, high-quality health coverage to members of rural communities in Western Colorado. The Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan has been in existence since 1996 and promotes local collaboration between health-care stakeholders: Employers, providers and insurance companies. While many are looking at national health care, the Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan believes that health care can best be promoted and managed locally.


The Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan teams with local chambers of commerce to offer employers within the extended Roaring Fork Valley a variety of flexible and cost-effective health plan designs. These plans, offered by Aetna, are available at discounted rates to chamber members.


While the Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan has offered a variety of programs and brought new carriers to the valley to incent competition over its history, starting in 2011 a new program is introduced to provide small and large businesses with a variety of cost saving benefits and workers compensation. This program combines the purchasing power of business to offer Fortune 500 benefits to small and mid sized employers. It also helps business owners save time on benefits administration and payroll.


The local medical community plays a critical role in the success of the Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan. Two local medical directors along with a group of providers and hospital executives on the board work closely with Aetna's medical directors to help better understand the utilization trends and manage care locally. The group is also involved in the development of regional health information exchange to reduce redundancy in the health care system, while helping consumers communicate more effectively with their providers. Aetna currently offers online personal health records to all Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan members at no additional charge. As a part of the RFVCHP, members gain access to Aetna's national PPO network and get a discount on billed charges from the local network of participating providers, including...


  • Valley View Hospital
  • Aspen Valley Hospital
  • Grand River Medical Center
  • Mid Valley Surgical-Orthopedic Associates
  • Gunnison Valley Hospital
  • Over 145 local physicians

Commitment to quality care, health education, wellness and prevention make Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan a valued partner for businesses and individuals within the region.


We help you understand and administer the complicated changes to new health care reform laws


With the changes to health care in legislation, the Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan strives to be the local exchange for employers while also helping relieve the burden of administering benefits programs.

Goals and Values: Affordable, high-quality health care for the community


Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan Goals:

  • To promote quality health care and health education to all community members at affordable cost
  • To cooperatively represent stakeholders (employers, providers, consumers) to ensure local ownership and control the system
  • To retain the highest percentage of health care dollars in the community
  • To maintain health responsibility and prevention orientation at the community level

Roaring Fork Valley Community Health Plan Values

  • We value local management.
  • We commit to a cooperative effort between health care providers and health care purchasers.
  • Our priorities include the highest quality, responsive customer service.
  • We will enhance the community's health status through education, prevention and self-responsibility for health.
  • We commit to fiscally responsible sharing of resources.
  • We will meet the changing needs of our customers and the health care environment through continuous improvement and innovation.
  • We respect and trust each other, and we value individual differences.
  • We believe the harmony of our differences will create synergy that will lead us beyond our vision.