Colorado Medicaid rolls fell 30 percent as spending climbed by $2 billion
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
Colorado Medicaid covered about 510,000 fewer people in an average month in fiscal 2025 than it did two years earlier. Estimated spending still climbed.
That is part of the puzzle a new legislative commission has been handed.
When the state unwound the pandemic-era rule that kept people continuously enrolled, average monthly enrollment fell roughly 30 percent between fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2025. Common sense says a program covering far fewer people should cost less. Colorado's cost more.
A September brief from the Common Sense Institute puts the increase at an estimated $2.09 billion, a 15 percent jump.
Fewer members. Higher costs. Less room to move.
What the state pays per person
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