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The Joint Budget Committee spent its lone-item morning session sparring over a Medicaid non-emergency medical transportation request to lift the pickup rate from $12.15 to $19.28, but members declined to raise it — pressing HCPF instead for a rural-specific analysis after Rep. Rick Taggart charged the department's work 'does not even remotely come close' to what he'd asked for.
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·NEMT pickup-rate 1331 requestAction
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“You are discriminating against rural Colorado and that is wrong.”
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The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We have one thing on the agenda today. We'll see how far we get between nine and well now and the start of the Medicaid Commission at 10. If we need to return to have any further discussion or decision, we can do so upon adjournment of the Medicaid Commission. But with that I think I would invite. Are you coming up, Director Harper? Okay, Director Ferrandino and whomever else is joining, come on up and please share with us this 1331 which the committee requested. Madam Chair, for the record, Mark Ferrandino, Executive Director of the Office of State Planning and Budgeting with me I have the Executive Director Hanner from HICPUFF and CFO Josh Block to respond to the request. From the last time we were together about the NEMT 1331, we come back with a request to change the pickup rate from 1215 to 1928 which is the rate that we had requested in our comeback during was that April, March, April timeline when we did comebacks, it seems like it was so long ago, even though it was only a few months ago. However, we do, given the…
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