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Colorado Filed a Pre-Big Bill Application that Could Save Provider Payments
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State, Approved, The Colorado Sun

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...
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Democrat-Led States Reverse Course on Health Coverage for Illegals
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Democrat-Led States Reverse Course on Health Coverage for Illegals

By Cooper Williamson | Blaze Media States will be ending their programs for illegal immigrants, saving millions. Since around 2020, Washington, D.C., and seven states have opened their health care programs to illegal aliens. However, since President Trump's administration began, some states have abruptly changed their policy positions. According to the Associated Press, California, Illinois, and Minnesota, all heavily Democrat-run states, have announced that they will be scaling back or ending their Medicaid programs for illegal aliens. Illinois will begin slashing its Medicaid availability immediately for illegal immigrants ages 42-64 for an estimated $404 million in savings. Minnesota likewise will be ending the program for adult illegal immigrants immediately. It is e...
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Polis Plans Special Session After Trump’s Budget Bombshell: Dems See Opportunity to Revive Agenda
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State, Approved, The Sum & Substance

Polis Plans Special Session After Trump’s Budget Bombshell: Dems See Opportunity to Revive Agenda

By Ed Sealover | The Sum & Substance Passage Thursday of the budget-cutting “One Big Beautiful Bill” essentially mandates that the Legislature will return to the Capitol for a special session this summer to deal with aspects of the federal law impacting Medicaid funding and artificial-intelligence regulation. Gov. Jared Polis’ Office of State Planning and Budgeting estimates the bill’s reductions to Medicaid spending, food assistance and other benefits that are largely or partially federally funded will cut state revenues $500 million and boost state costs another $500 million. That will necessitate legislators to come back and re-balance the budget, likely by reducing funding to a number of other programs. And before passing the bill, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators strip...
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