Colorado selected for Medicaid demonstration program

Colorado has been selected as one of 10 new states to participate in the next cohort of the Certified Community Behavioral ...
JD Supra

Colorado Medicaid: RAC Program Overhauled with Enhanced Transparency, Greater Provider Protections, and Increased Oversight

In June 2025, Colorado passed a new law that makes significant changes to the state’s Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program. Colorado has one of the most aggressive RAC programs in the ...
Denver WestwordOpinion

Colorado’s 2026 budget crisis absorbed by poor and working class

By the end of the session, lawmakers had passed a FY 2026-27 budget that closed the gap through cuts, transfers, delayed ...
The Gazette

Colorado legislators drove up cost of Medicaid program

Some of Colorado’s spending woes in Medicaid can be traced to lawmakers who had approved new or expanded programs in the last few years, driving up state costs to the tune of tens of millions of ...
Public News Service on MSN

Colorado Lt. Governor slams Medicaid cuts in 'One Big Beautiful Bill'

An estimated 130,000 Coloradans are projected to lose their health insurance under Republicans’ signature “One Big Beautiful ...
The Aspen Times

‘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 Greeley Tribune

Colorado won’t say if it will turn over Medicaid data that feds could use to find immigrants

The state agency that runs Colorado’s Medicaid program won’t say whether it will turn over requested data about enrollees to the Trump administration — information that could be used to track down ...
The Gazette

Under fire from legislators and critics, Colorado’s top Medicaid official resigns

Photo courtesy of Craig Vollmer Photography Kim Bimestefer, Executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, speaks at the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance’s ...
The Aspen Times

The cost of a Colorado program providing health care to undocumented immigrants ballooned. Now, lawmakers are eyeing cuts

When Colorado lawmakers passed a bill in 2022 to grant Medicaid coverage to pregnant immigrant women and children, regardless of their immigration status, they did so under the assumption that it ...
The Greeley Tribune

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

In November, Colorado Medicaid officials corrected a mistake. Five years earlier, they’d told contracted transportation providers in metro Denver to bill the state as if the providers were specialty ...