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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 lawmakers scrutinize strategies to rein in state Medicaid spending

A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers tasked with writing the state’s annual budget voiced concerns on Monday over proposals to curb Medicaid spending during a marathon, multi-hour hearing.
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 ...
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 ...
Summit County

Colorado governor cuts Medicaid, pulls $100M in affordable housing funds to help close state budget gap

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is cutting Medicaid reimbursement rates and redirecting more than $100 million in affordable housing funds as part of his plan to close the state’s budget deficit. The ...
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 ...
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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, ...
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 ...
9NEWS

Colorado residents fear Medicaid cuts as lawmakers convene for a special session

DENVER — As Colorado lawmakers prepare to gather for a special session this week, residents of a Denver assisted living facility say looming Medicaid cuts could leave them homeless and without care.

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” ...
The National Law Review

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

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