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Colorado Medicaid Faces Crisis as Gainwell Systems Meet 2026 Federal Shockwaves

In early 2026, Health First Colorado finds itself at a critical juncture where technical modernization efforts are overshadowed by a federal policy earthquake. The 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' (H.R. 1 ...
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 ...
Vail Daily

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs state budget, with Medicaid taking brunt of cuts to close $1 billion gap

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday, May 8, signed into law a $46.8 billion state budget that cuts healthcare spending but ...
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 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 ...
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

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 National Law Review

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

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