Jeffco businessmen charged with $12 million Medicaid fraud involving nonexistent eyeglasses

A pair of Jefferson County businessmen defrauded $12 million from Colorado’s Medicaid program by charging the state ...

Medicaid suspends agency behind ‘The Program,’ citing ‘credible’ fraud allegations

The agency overseeing Colorado’s federal Medicaid program has suspended an Aurora home-health agency that is the focus of an ...

State sends warning letters to thousands of migrants who could lose Medicaid

State officials said 6,000 to 7,000 people could be affected by new federal eligibility rules – may be disenrolled starting ...
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 ...
Colorado Politics

Colorado health officials say federal budget adds pressure to already stressed system

As the first anniversary of H.R. 1 approaches, Colorado Democrats and hospital executives say the law’s Medicaid reductions ...
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 ...
Heartland

Research & Commentary: Federal Waiver Can Save Colorado’s Medicaid Program

The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

‘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 ...
Daily Camera

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 ...