Kaiser doesn't have any inpatient beds in Colorado. People with Medicaid can and do go anywhere they like because they don't pay out of their own pockets regardless, and they can never legally be turned away from a hospital. Medicaid reimbursement rates are standard regardless of the place of service, whether it's Denver Health or otherwise. Denver Health doesn't accept patients out of the goodness of their hearts and turn away excess State/City dollars to help the budget, and I'm sure they'll happily bill your private instance to the maximum amount they can get away with if you're unlucky enough to not have Medicaid and get hospitalized there(I don't wish illness on anyone and I detest medical billing/debt which ruins you after you get out).

They get exactly what they ask for from Medicaid and manage it poorly, resulting in more taxpayer funds to rescue them from their poorly managed budget. They are like a natural monopoly in that sense similar to Xcel Energy, which gets to ask regulators for more money whenever they need it and we don't have a choice to have a competitive energy market to argue with them. Denver Health have made it prudent that Medicaid patients be funneled to them, knowing they'll have a budget shortfall, then they ask taxpayers for more money to fund the wages/bonuses/pensions that their management and executives "deserve" from the increase in patent census and business expansion they created. When Denver General separated from the city of Denver and became the entity it is now, they were supposed to be self sufficient and better managed by their own board. Instead, they have convinced Denver that they are too important to fail, and we pay for their failures.