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Commission on Medicaid

Wednesday, June 17, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The Commission on Medicaid interviewed seven candidates to be its technical advisor, then chose SHG Advisors' Summer Gaither-Cole by unanimous vote before turning to a candid, at-times combative HCPF update in which Executive Director Gretchen Hammer conceded the department 'made a mistake.'

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·Technical advisor candidate: Colorado Health InstituteAction

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Notable Quotes

If you are looking for a technical advisor, that is a Medicaid chatgpt. We're not it. Quite frankly.

Dr. Alicia Verson (Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab, DU) · witnessVerson set expectations that the lab offers analytic judgment, not an on-demand answer machine—part of a pitch that leaned on absorbing cost overruns and LINC data access.

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I like to sit here where I can, you know, don't sit in front of the post. No. Okay, You can sit in front of me. Pretty short there, Barb. Okay. The commission on Medicaid will come to order. Mr. Brown, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives. Baron. Presente. Bridges. Excused. Frizzell. Present. Gilchrist. Present. Kirkmeyer. Mullica. Here. Sirota. Here. Taggart. Brown. Here. Adam. Chair. Mobile. Here. Okay. I don't think we have to do anything preliminarily, so I'll just say welcome, everybody. Our mission today is to pick a technical advisor for the Medicaid Commission. And so we are going to call up. We had seven proposals and I want to just say thank you to everybody who submitted a proposal. They're all really good, and it's going to be tough for us to figure that out, but we have invited all of the people who submitted a proposal to come today. And we're going to call people up, one group at a time, and I think we'll take about, you know, you can talk about your proposal for a few minutes, you know, and then we'll. We want to spend the bulk of the time asking questions.
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