Joint Budget Committee
Facing a $207.6 million general fund hole, the Joint Budget Committee spent its HCPF figure-setting day approving a cascade of Medicaid benefit cuts — most dramatically a rollback of the year-old Cover All Coloradans program after its costs blew past the original fiscal note sevenfold. The panel also broke unanimity repeatedly, notably rejecting the department's hospital medical-education request outright and splitting on several provider-rate and senior-dental cuts.
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“the fiscal note for House Bill 221289 for fiscal year 2526, it was projecting general fund costs of 14.7 million. In the February forecast, the department for the Same fiscal year 2526 is projecting general fund costs of 104.6 million general fund. So the fiscal note missed pretty badly on what this would cost. Just a bit outside.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt's. All right. The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are starting figure setting for the Department of Healthcare Policy and financing with Mr. Kurtz today. Where shall we begin? Start at the beginning, actually. I'll back up to the contents. Madam Chair. If you just look at the table of contents, there's a lot of arrowed items here that are going to require action by the Budget Committee. But that last section, continuation of supplemental actions. This is, I hope, something that will go fairly quickly because you've made decisions during the supplemental and now those just carry forward into fiscal year 2627. We'll revisit them just to make sure your position hasn't changed, but hopefully that will go fairly quickly. On page one is an overview of the staff recommendations. As I've done through the different stages in this process, I've tried to organize it into some different categories. So there's the requests that are related to the medical forecast, those that change eligibility and benefits, provider rates, administration. And I'll go through these requests in those categories. And then within those categories, I've ordered the requests in the department's request order. So the first category…
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