What bad timing for Colorado’s Medicaid system to look like it is incapable of accurately billing the federal government for Medicaid recipients or managing the claims providers make for services.

As Republicans look to overhaul the system – House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan fundamentally alters and ultimately reduces federal support of the Medicaid programs run by states – it would be nice if Coloradans could have confidence that ours is responsibly doing its job of providing health insurance to low-income families, children, adults and disabled individuals.

Unfortunately, that confidence may be waning due to two recent (albeit completely unrelated) revelations.The first was that the state over-billed the federal government for somewhere between $20 million and $40 million. The second was that providers of care for disabled adults were having their claims incorrectly denied by a newly launched payment system.

Read more at The Denver Post.