health care policy and financing
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Aurora mental health nonprofit cuts 100-plus jobs after Colorado agency reduces reimbursement rate
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A nonprofit that provides services through 11 mental health centers in Aurora announced Thursday that it is eliminating 111 jobs effective June 30, the result of federal and state budget reductions. Aurora Mental Health & Recovery said the positions being eliminated are mostly administrative and support service jobs. That includes 91 jobs currently held by…
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Audit: Millions in Medicaid benefits paid for potentially ineligible Colorado patients
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The Colorado Department of Heath Care Policy and Financing may have paid millions of dollars in claims for ineligible Medicaid patients last year due to staff errors, state Auditor Dianne Ray told the Legislative Audit Committee on Feb. 26. A recent state audit of accounting practices of state agencies uncovered a half-dozen “material weaknesses,” the…
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Gorman: Amendment 72 is constitutionally guaranteed revenue for state bureaucracies
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Amendment 72 supporters claim that raising tobacco taxes will reduce smoking. That’s a smokescreen. What the amendment really does is create a constitutionally mandated stream of revenue for two state health bureaucracies that seek to shake off the shackles of legislative budgetary oversight. Under Amendment 72, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes will…
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Strode: Aguilar bill calls for transparency for Community Centered Boards
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State Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver, has introduced a bill to ensure that the state’s 20 Community Centered Boards are subject to regular financial and performance reviews. CCBs, private non-profits designated as entry points into support systems for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, receive funding from state, federal and local governments. Senate Bill 16-038 would make…