department of health care policy and financing
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Colorado Medicaid spending doubled over the past decade, study finds
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Spending by Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing reached $16 billion in 2025 — a 101% increase from 2015 — while Medicaid enrollment has returned to nearly its 2015 level, according to an analysis by a think tank. Pointing to 182 health care bills Colorado lawmakers enacted since 2019, the report from the…
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Colorado’s government spending has outpaced inflation, analysis finds
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Colorado’s per-person spending has increased by 31% over the last two decades, despite slowed population growth, according to a new analysis by the Common Sense Institute. The annual report compares state spending by department over the last 20 years, tracking appropriations trends, comparing growth relative to inflation and population, and determining whether Coloradans are likely…
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Colorado bill to force Medicaid recipients to seek jobs fails in committee
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DENVER – A bill that sought to make Colorado the fourth state to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to hold or look for jobs failed Thursday. Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik, R-Thornton, joined with Democrats to sink Senate Bill 214 on a 3-2 vote by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She cited the high cost to…
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A (very) different take on Sue Birch’s departure from guv’s cabinet…
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… courtesy of reliably right-of-center Colorado Peak Politics, which isn’t about to cut Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper any slack. As noted here earlier this week, Hick’s office had announced Sue Birch, executive director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, will leave to take over the Washington State Health Care Authority. The announcement included accolades…
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Sue Birch — change agent, one of guv’s earliest picks — moves on
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The Hickenlooper cabinet member credited by the governor with having “ushered Colorado through incredible changes to our health care system” stepped down this week to take a similar job in Washington’s state government. The office of Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Monday that Sue Birch, executive director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and…
