Head of Colorado Medicaid Office Pledges to Avoid ‘Draconian’ Cuts as Agency Charts a New Path Under GOP Budget Law

Budget gap created by Trump tax bill likely means cuts to some Colorado Medicaid services

The agency that runs Colorado's Medicaid program has a plan to get out of a budget crisis without "draconian" cuts, but it likely will require decreasing payments for a subset of services.

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 bill.”  Officials with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the agency that oversees Medicaid in the state, held a virtual roundtable on Tuesday to discuss the impacts of the new budget law and how they’ll respond.  At over…

Op-Ed: Big Beautiful Bill’s ugly Medicaid miss

Congress has a lot to tell their constituents about while they’re back home over the August recess. Republican members especially will be bragging about the Medicaid reforms they secured in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to reduce fraud…

Colorado hopes a last-second bid will help soften the One Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid cuts

Colorado is hoping a just-under-the-wire application to the federal government will help soften the blow of Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the recently signed tax and spending measure. The application is to create what is known as a state directed payments program. Such programs pull down extra federal Medicaid funding that can then be paid to health care providers with the goal of expanding access to care and improving the qua…