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Colorado lawmakers limit health care enrollment for immigrant children, but raise cap on dental benefits as budget talks conclude

After weeks of wrestling with how to rein in spending on a program providing health coverage to immigrants, Colorado ...
Longmont Times-Call

After a parade of Medicaid errors and cuts, Colorado lawmakers plan a deep review of health care program

Frustrated with prior management of Medicaid and bracing for more near-term cuts, Colorado lawmakers plan to do a “deep dive” ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

State Medicaid cuts pose concerns for locals with disabilities

Under Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), state taxes cannot be increased without explicit voter approval, and the ...
The Gazette

Unsustainable: How Colorado’s Medicaid spending exploded

Tegan Motschall, who has cerebral palsy, smiles during an equine therapy session as Kathy Sandefur, left, and occupational therapist Liz Ampe assist. The therapy can be used as a tool in occupational ...
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 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 ...
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Colorado woman accused of defrauding Medicaid program over $1 million

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — A Mesa County woman has been federally charged for allegedly defrauding Medicaid’s Non-Emergent Medical Transportation (NEMT) program of over a million dollars. On Tuesday, ...
Vail Daily

Medicaid and SNAP are set for an overhaul. Colorado counties and lawmakers are wondering how to respond.

With major changes coming to the country’s social safety net system, Colorado counties are bracing for heavier caseloads and ...
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 ...