The Colorado Sun

Hours of tearful testimony result in pause to some Medicaid cuts for Coloradans with disabilities

The cuts would have capped hours and lowered rates for parents caring for adults and children with severe disabilities ...

Expensive beer, millions overpaid to a Medicaid program’s providers and more from the Colorado legislature this week

Colorado lawmakers voted Wednesday to send millions of dollars to the state’s overcrowded prison system, one week after a key ...

For years, Colorado Medicaid mistakenly paid a program’s providers several times too much — costing millions

You either laugh at this one, or you cry,” Rep. Kyle Brown said. ” … So maybe it’s $20 million in a given year, and it’s been ...
Yahoo

Colorado joins lawsuit to block mass transfer of Medicaid data to ICE

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado joined with several other states to file a lawsuit in an effort to block the mass transfer of Medicaid ...
KRDO

Caregivers to testify at Colorado Capitol Monday

On Monday, February 2, caregivers of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and those with medically ...
Colorado Public Radio

How Medicaid became such a drag on Colorado’s state budget

Colorado lawmakers are facing their second budget cycle in a row in which they’re forecast to have about $1 billion less than they need to continue current levels of state programs and services. And ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado resume treatment of Medicaid patients

Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado temporarily resumed treating patients covered by Medicaid on Wednesday after halting primary care for about 5,000 people last week. Clinics canceled appointments ...

Colorado Medicaid overpaid wheelchair transport providers tens of millions in 5-year upcoding error

For five years, the Joint Budget Committee said transportation companies using vans for extra large wheelchairs were billing the state for a specialty ambulance.
KPBS

In this rural Colorado valley, cuts to Medicaid would have vast ripple effects

In southern Colorado's San Luis Valley, clouds billow above the towering mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range. A chorus of blackbirds whistle, as they flit among the reeds of a wildlife refuge. Big ...
FOX31 Denver

‘Not a tool for surveillance’: Groups urge Colorado’s Medicaid agency to deny federal data request

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Advocacy groups on Wednesday ...
The Gazette

Colorado’s Medicaid policy expands mental health support in doctor’s offices

Starting this past July 1, Colorado’s Medicaid program, Health First Colorado, began reimbursing primary care clinics for mental health services provided through the Collaborative Care Model, or CoCM.
Summit County

Head of Colorado Medicaid office pledges to avoid ‘draconian’ cuts as agency charts a new path under GOP budget law

Colorado health officials are beginning to map out a plan for how to deal with federal changes to Medicaid under congressional Republicans’ and President Donald Trump’s recently enacted “big, ...