The Colorado Sun

Plan to cut Medicaid rates for Coloradans with disabilities gets no support from governing board, moves ahead anyway

State Medicaid officials said they have authority to continue with the plan through an executive order from Gov. Jared Polis ...

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

After Colorado voters in 2024 approved Amendment 79 to enshrine the right to abortion in the Colorado Constitution, people seeking abortion care in the state can have that care covered by Medicaid as ...

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 ...
Colorado Public Radio

Medicaid recipients, advocates furious over state mistake that’s costing tens of millions of dollars

This now threatens funding for programs supporting thousands of Colorado families with children with disabilities.

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Aspen Times

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, beautiful ...

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.