Colorado Medicaid department overshot budget by $120 million

Paramedics bring a patient into the Emergency Department at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora on March 13, 2023. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

By Meg Wingerter | mwingerter@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: August 29, 2024 at 6:00 AM MDT | UPDATED: August 29, 2024 at 6:03 AM MDT

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Medicaid rolls were in flux over the last year as states started removing people for the first time since early 2020.

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Colorado’s Medicaid department overshot budget by $120 million

The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing underestimated members’ health care needs last year

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