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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

Abortion care for Colorado Medicaid recipients, public employees n ow covered by insurance

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in 2025 signs into law a bill that implements Amendment 79, a constitutional amendment that guarantees ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

‘No magic bullet:’ Colorado officials seek ways to curb rising Medicaid costs

Colorado’s spending on Medicaid — the federal-state program that covers more than 1 in 5 low-income Coloradans — is reaching a point of unsustainability, state officials say. Cuts to the program may ...

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.
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.
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 ...
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, ...