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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

Parade of Medicaid errors leads to review, budget nears the finish line and more from the Colorado legislature this week

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

Colorado medical transport companies struggle as state fixes reimbursement errors

Denver-area medical transportation companies struggle after Medicaid reimbursement rates were slashed to fight fraud and fix ...
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 ...
FOX31 Denver

‘Not a tool for surveillance’: Groups urge Colorado’s Medicaid agency to deny federal data request

DENVER (KDVR) — Advocacy groups on Wednesday raised the alarm about a request made to Colorado’s Medicaid program for personal and health data on undocumented immigrants who lawfully enrolled in the ...
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 ...