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 ...
Longmont Times-Call

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 ...

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 ...
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, ...

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.
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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...
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 ...
Houston Public Media

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 ...
The Gazette

EDITORIAL: Stop the bleeding for Colorado Medicaid

Just weeks after some Colorado members of Congress publicly called on our state to stop hemorrhaging scarce Medicaid dollars on illegal immigration, the state’s attorney general instead has decided to ...