“We don’t have 130 patients coming through the ED needing emergency dialysis anymore,” said Dr. Lilia Cervantes, director of immigrant health at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the key advocate for the dialysis change, which has saved the state about $10 million a year, according to data from the state’s health care policy and financing department. But she’d like to see more people get the care they need to avoid developing a chronic condition like kidney disease in the first place.