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EDITORIAL: Medicaid problems mount

By 08/14/2017 | updated 9 years ago

Health care providers are not being reimbursed in anything like a timely manner since Obamacare’s huge expansion of Medicaid started overwhelming many of the states’ systems for managing the unprecedented growth.

Colorado’s Medicaid agency – the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing – says long delays in payments began when the state required providers to re-enroll their credentials with a new third-party provider, DXC Technology, in March. But the problems go beyond the initial credentialing and persist to this day.

The late or in some cases yet-unpaid bills have left Colorado hospitals, health centers and private clinics uncompensated for thousands of Medicaid claims, representing millions of dollars owed to them.

Read more at The Pueblo Chieftain.

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