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News Releases
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2022 News Releases
- Saving People Money on Healthcare: Polis-Primavera Administration Submits Canadian Drug Importation Plan to the FDA - December 5, 2022
- Polis-Primavera Administration Announces Prescription Drug Importation Partners - August 18, 2022
- Health First Colorado Partners with El Paso County on Text Messaging Campaign - August 11, 2022
- Health First Colorado Releases Analysis of Emergency Department/Room Utilization and Drivers for Services - July 13, 2022
- State Agencies Release Audit Findings on Mind Springs Health and West Springs Hospital - May 12, 2022
- Colorado Hospital Profits Among Nation’s Highest for Third Consecutive Year - March 30, 2022
- Colorado Medicaid Executes Its First Pharmaceutical Value-Based Contracts - March 22, 2022
- Statement on Department of Justice Findings That Colorado Violated the Americans with Disabilities Act - March 3, 2022
- Polis Administration Supplemental Budget Requests Support Nursing Homes, Their Workers, and Vulnerable Coloradans in Their Care - Jan. 4, 2022
2021 News Releases
- Resources for Getting Prescriptions Refilled for Evacuees of the Marshall Fire - Dec. 31, 2021
- Colorado Medicaid Suspends New PACE Enrollments at InnovAge Centers Following Audit Findings - Dec. 23, 2021
- Statement on behavioral health transformation from HCPF Executive Director Kim Bimestefer and CDHS Executive Director Michelle Barnes - Dec. 15, 2021
- Innovative Health Care Payment and Delivery to be Piloted in Colorado - Dec. 15, 2021
- CMS and Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee Approve $530 Million ARPA Funds to Transform Colorado’s Home and Community-Based Services System - Sept. 22, 2021
- New State Report Identifies Substantial Maternal Health Disparities and Invites Partnerships to Address Them - Sept. 14, 2021
- Colorado Hospital Prices Continue to be Among Nation’s Highest - Aug. 18, 2021
- Home and Community-Based Health Services Get A Boost from New Legislation - July 1, 2021
- U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Affordable Care Act - June 17, 2021
- State Supreme Court Upholds Hospital Provider Fees - June 15, 2021
- Bills to Improve Long-Term Care Signed into Law - May 27, 2021
- Colorado Releases Solicitation to Import Prescription Drugs from Canada - Jan. 25, 2021
- Polis Administration Releases New Prescription Drug Report - Assembles More Than 1600 Colorado Leaders to Tackle Prescription Drug Costs - Jan. 11, 2021
Public Notices
Proposed changes to programs, benefits, rates and other initiatives important to Coloradans are listed here. We post public notices in the Colorado Register, and for 60 days on this web page.
- Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Amendments
- Medicaid Fee-for-Service Reimbursement Rate Increases
- Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Final Rule Statewide Transition Plan (STP)
- Prudent Layperson Standard for Emergency Department Cost Sharing
- Raise Base Wage for Pediatric Personal Care Direct Care Workers to $15/hour
- Medicaid Statewide Managed Care System
- Indian Health Services (IHS) and Tribal Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Payment Methodologies
- COVID Vaccine Admin--Emergency Use Authorization Drugs--ASC Code Rate Increase
- Targeted Case Management Qualifications
- EAPG OP Hospital Grouper
- Rural Health Center Rates
- Ambulatory Surgical Center Rates
- Hospital Back-up Program
- Hospice Rate Update 2021
- GME Managed Care Payments
- Pediatric Immunization Administration
- FFY22 CHASE
- Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Amendments
- Implementation of Colorado House Bill 21-1275
- Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Amendments
- Qualified Residential Treatment Program
- Outpatient Pharmacy Rate Methodology for Blood Clotting Factor Drugs
- Family Medicine Supplemental Payment
- Heightened Scrutiny Determinations Under Various Waivers
- Alternative Payment Methodology 2
- Adult Dental Benefit Maximum
- COVID-19 Emergency Targeted Case Management Additional Workload One-time Per Member Per Month Payment
- Medicaid Fee-for-Service Reimbursement Rate Increases
- Behavioral Health Fee-For-Service Rate Rebalance CORRECTIONS
Previous public notices are on the Secretary of State website.