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| Aug 5, 2026 | Colorado could owe feds $8 million from improper Medicaid payments, audit says | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado could owe the federal government at least $8 million for improperly documented care to people with disabilities, according to a new audit from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Colorado receives FDA permission to import cheaper drugs — including Ozempic — from Canada | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado finally has federal permission to start importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, but the state may not have any sellers to work with.
Lawmakers passed a bill in 2019 that directed... |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Colorado still trying to figure out Medicaid work requirements as clock ticks | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s Medicaid agency is still trying to sort out who may be exempt from looming federal work requirements that apply to nearly 400,000 people in the state — and how to prove it.
Under H.R. 1,... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | New Colorado laws require health inspections of ICE facilities, aim to reduce cost of homeowners insurance | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Gov. Jared Polis signed new laws Thursday that will require quarterly inspections of immigration detention facilities and help retrofit homes to protect against wind and hail damage.
Another bill s... |
| May 26, 2026 | Congress lied. Now Colorado’s Medicaid cuts may now force me into a wheelchair. (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Lydia Cruz
Imagine you are brushing your hair. As you reach up, your right collarbone slides away from your shoulder. Pain radiates up the side of your neck into your head. You put on a neck bra... |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Head of Colorado’s Medicaid agency reached nearly $40,000 settlement with state before resigning | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Kim Bimestefer (Photo courtesy Gov. Jared Polis' office)
The longtime head of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing reached a nearly $40,000 settlement with the state over dis... |
| Apr 16, 2026 | After a parade of Medicaid errors and cuts, Colorado lawmakers plan a deep review of health care program | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Frustrated with prior management of Medicaid and bracing for more near-term cuts, Colorado lawmakers plan to do a “deep dive” into the state’s massive program.
The bipartisan Joint Budget Committee... |
| Apr 11, 2026 | Lost sleep for Colorado lawmakers as they reckon with budget cuts for disabled people, immigrant children | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Colorado House’s initial debates over the state’s proposed budget have put anguished focus on the areas hardest hit by lawmakers’ attempts to close a $1.5 billion deficit, from agriculture to h... |
| Apr 5, 2026 | Colorado is nearing another massive budget cut. Medicaid will take the brunt — and it may not be the last shortfall. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
For the third time in two years, Colorado’s budget-writing lawmakers are close to filling a gobsmacking budget gap — this time, a $1.5 billion shortfall in the general fund for the state’s next fis... |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Director of Colorado’s Medicaid agency resigns after lawmakers planned vote calling for her removal | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Kim Bimestefer, the longtime head of the Colorado agency that oversees Medicaid, announced Monday that she will resign next week, days after lawmakers told Gov. Jared Polis’ staff that they planned... |
| Mar 22, 2026 | Colorado is proposing major changes to autism therapy — and families are worried | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Sabrina Ortengren had almost no hope when she and her husband Jay sat down with an autism therapy provider in Evergreen in 2022.
All of the specialized schools in their home state of Virginia had d... |
| Mar 21, 2026 | As Medicaid costs rise, should Colorado charge fees on large employers that don’t insure all workers? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As Colorado policymakers grapple with the state’s increasing Medicaid costs, an Arvada legislator has an idea for how to fill some of the gap.
Her bill would levy fees on large employers that have ... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Colorado hospital profits rose in 2024, but they’re still far from pre-pandemic levels | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado hospitals’ finances rebounded in 2024 after taking a beating in the previous two years, but still haven’t regained their pre-pandemic heights, according to a pair of new state reports.
Exp... |
| Feb 22, 2026 | Flawed analysis caused Colorado Medicaid program’s costs to surge and made it ‘attractive’ to fraud | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A Colorado Medicaid program was beset with explosive costs and fraud after state officials relied on a flawed analysis and recommended the legislature nearly triple the program’s reimbursement rate... |
| Feb 6, 2026 | Demand grows for doulas who can help moms with addiction | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
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FDA to reassess the safety of BHA, a preservative used in popular snack foods
It’s 2026 and you’re uninsured. Now what?
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| Jan 29, 2026 | For years, Colorado Medicaid mistakenly paid a program’s providers several times too much — costing millions | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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 specialt... |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Colorado Medicaid driver fraud cost $25 million — and state blocked payments worth nearly as much, officials say | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A Medicaid fraud scheme targeting a free transportation program that shuttled patients to medical appointments cost an estimated $25 million, the state’s Medicaid authority revealed Tuesday, more t... |
| Jan 11, 2026 | Colorado’s getting $1 billion to ‘transform’ rural health care. But hospitals aren’t thrilled with the state’s plan. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado will receive about $1 billion in federal funding to reshape rural health care over the next five years, but hospital CEOs aren’t happy with the state’s plan to spend the money.
Last year’s... |
| Jan 8, 2026 | It’s the ‘gold standard’ in autism care. Why are states reining it in? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Bram Sable-Smith and Andrew Jones, KFF Health News
ALEXANDER, N.C. — Aubreigh Osborne has a new best friend.
Dressed in blue with a big ribbon in her blond curls, the 3-year-old sat in her mothe... |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Colorado Medicaid cuts to home caregiver program would put strain on families that ‘are already struggling’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Susan Root often works 16-hour days as she makes sure the machines that feed her daughter and pump oxygen into her lungs are working. She also manages her daughter’s seizures and handles all the ne... |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Big loopholes in hospital charity care programs mean patients still get stuck with the tab | By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News
Quinn Cochran-Zipp went to the emergency room three times with severe abdominal pain before doctors figured out she had early-stage cancer in the germ cells of her right ovary. After emergency surgery fo... |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Colorado to reinstate prior authorization for Medicaid patients’ therapy | Therapists treating Medicaid enrollees in Colorado will have to get the state’s authorization to conduct more than 24 sessions with an individual patient in a year, as the department overseeing the program tries to rein in what it considers... |
| Sep 20, 2025 | One-third of Gov. Jared Polis’ budget cuts involve Medicaid | Almost one-third of the budget cuts and sweeps of unused money that Gov. Jared Polis used to close a $249 million budget hole will come from Medicaid, and providers are trying to figure out how much disruption that will cause for them and t... |
| Sep 20, 2025 | Colorado families caring for disabled adults to see cut in Medicaid pay | Colorado families paid by Medicaid to provide around-the-clock care for adults with disabilities will do so with about 8% less funding starting next year under one of the cuts meant to close the state’s budget hole
For years, family caregiv... |
| Sep 6, 2025 | Colorado hospitals provided $141 million in charity care in first quarter — up 26% from last year | Colorado hospitals provided $141 million in charity care to patients who couldn’t pay during the first quarter of 2025, continuing the steep increases seen in recent years.
The cost of charity care rose 26% compared to the first quarter of ... |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Colorado Medicaid to pay for collaborative work to bring mental health into primary care | The model won’t eliminate the need for referrals, but will allow some kids to get their mental health care in a place where they already feel comfortable, Nagel said.
“We could probably fill the schedules of five to six behavioral health pr... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | 5,000 Colorado Medicaid patients who used Planned Parenthood must find new doctors | A federal judge in Massachusetts put the provision in the tax law on hold for two weeks, but the legal landscape is too unsettled to schedule patients covered by Medicaid, Mansanares said. They’ve canceled “hundreds” of appointments since T... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | The Battle Over Health Care and Tax Cuts: A Colorado Perspective | The political landscape in Colorado is shifting like sand beneath our feet. A proposed tax bill, heralded by Republicans, threatens to reshape the state's health care system and the lives of its residents. As the Senate pushes forward, the ... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Colorado officials blast Republican Senate tax bill as final passage — and Medicaid cuts — loom | Projections from congressional Democrats indicated that six rural hospitals could close in Colorado as a result of the Medicaid cuts and that nearly a quarter-million residents could lose health insurance.
In separate statements Tuesday, U.... |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Trump bill’s Medicaid provision that’s now in limbo could cost Colorado $10 billion | The Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan figure whose job is to issue guidance on whether bills violate the chamber’s rules, called the amendment into question Thursday by issuing an opinion that it likely wouldn’t pass muster.
She also ra... |
| May 30, 2025 | Guest opinion: Judy Amabile: Medicaid cuts will hurt you too | Colorado communities are already reeling from the impacts of inadequate treatment for psychosis and substance disorders. Our community mental health centers serve almost 100% Medicaid patients. These facilities could end up shutting down if... |
| May 15, 2025 | Colorado would lose billions in Medicaid funding under House Republicans’ plan | The state likely couldn’t replace the reduced federal spending, having just faced a $1.2 billion budget hole for the fiscal year starting in July. While lawmakers managed to plug it this year, they anticipate a need for deeper cuts next yea... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Colorado will cover abortion for Medicaid patients, state employees as Gov. Polis signs public funding law | The other law, passed as Senate Bill 129, will ramp up the state’s 2023 shield law to guard reproductive health care providers and patients — and their data — from out-of-state investigations and other actions.
Dozens of people — mostly wom... |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Colorado's Early Intervention Program Faces Funding Crisis: A Call to Action | In the heart of Colorado, a storm brews over the Early Intervention program, a lifeline for young children with disabilities. This program, serving children up to age three, is at a critical juncture. The stakes are high, and the implicatio... |
| Apr 8, 2025 | Colorado lawmakers stave off cuts to program serving young children with disabilities | Currently, there’s no limit on the number of hours of service a child can receive. The proposed reduction in services was among a host of “emergency cost containment measures” the agency announced.
The Early Intervention program serves babi... |
| Oct 6, 2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Caren McCready: Time for action on hidden health care costs | The report highlights three key takeaways:
Facility fees do not result in better patient outcomes.
They create uncertainty and barriers to accessing affordable care.
They disproportionately benefit big hospital systems, not patients.
As the... |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Politics | More than 200 new Colorado laws are about to take effect. Here are several, from gun permit rules to concert ticket fees. | A third new tax credit will provide two years of reimbursement for college tuition to students whose families make less than $90,000 a year, though they won’t be able to claim the credit for the coming academic year until filing their 2025 ... |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Health | Medicaid now covers doulas for pregnant and postpartum Coloradans | The full doula package includes up to 180 minutes each of prenatal and postpartum care, as well as birth support, Snyder said. The doula and client can decide how to divide up the appointments. For example, some may want three hour-long vis... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Health | Colorado clinics, mental health providers are seeing more uninsured patients — and they’re worried that’s the new normal | Despite public perceptions that everyone can get affordable coverage through the individual marketplace, people often find they can’t pay their out-of-pocket costs if they get sick or hurt, said Dr. Bebe Kleinman, CEO of Doctors Care in Lit... |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Health | ‘Are nursing homes our only option?’ These centers offer older adults an alternative | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — George Raines, a white-haired man in a red track suit and matching University of Alabama ball cap, cracked jokes as physical therapist Brad Ellis led him through a series of exe... |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Health | UCHealth reports half a billion dollars in uncompensated care in 2023 | UCHealth provided more than half a billion dollars’ worth of uncompensated care in fiscal year 2023, and representatives for the health care system on Tuesday said they expect to spend even more this year.
Three factors increased uncompensa... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Health | Hospitals’ uncompensated care for migrants in Colorado “is not sustainable,” UCHealth warns | UCHealth needs more money and support to keep responding to the surge in migrants arriving in metro Denver, the health system’s leaders are warning after University of Colorado Hospital provided $10 million in uncompensated care in just thr... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Community with high medical debt questions its hospitals' charity spending | PUEBLO, Colo. — As 41% of American adults face medical debt, residents of this southern Colorado city contend their local nonprofit hospitals aren't providing enough charity care to justify the millions in tax-breaks they receive.
The two h... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Colorado warns hackers stole 16 years of public school data in ransomware attack | Colorado’s state government has warned students and teachers that hackers may have accessed their personal information — dating as far back as 2004.
In a notice on its website, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) confirmed it... |
| Mar 20, 2023 | Health
Health | Colorado’s nonprofit hospitals would be required to spend more on “community benefit” under new bill | Nonprofit hospitals are required to show they spend money on “community benefit,” but a bill in the Colorado legislature would require them to invest more and focus on different priorities.
The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t require hospi... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | States challenge Biden to lower drug prices by allowing imports from Canada | The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from states to let them import medicine from Canada to help lower prescription drug costs.
Colorado on Dec. 5 became at least the fourth state to seek federal permission to use the strate... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Bill Semple: We don’t need more millionaires. We need health care. | By Bill Semple
The American dream is haunted by the nightmare of a rigged economy. Even during a pandemic, our economy has created millionaires and billionaires. At the same time, our cities and towns have parks and trails lined with fellow... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Health
Health | SCL Health, Intermountain promise lower costs and better quality, but most hospital mergers haven’t helped patients | Hospital mergers generally haven’t brought health care costs down, but there’s some reason to think the new owners of SCL Health’s facilities in Colorado might be able to do something different.
Broomfield-based SCL Health, which owns five ... |
