Colorado Filed a Pre-Big Bill Application that Could Save Provider Payments
By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun
The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing submitted an application for a state directed payments program seven days before the bill became law.
Colorado is hoping a just-under-the-wire application to the federal government will help soften the blow of Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the recently signed tax and spending measure.
The application is to create what is known as a state directed payments program. Such programs pull down extra federal Medicaid funding that can then be paid to health care providers with the goal of expanding access to care and improving the quality of the care.
Colorado submitted its application to federal health care authorities June 27. Seven days later, President Donald Trump signed t...