Joint Health
In a marathon SMART Act oversight hearing, Joint Health worked through a stack of agency briefings — from a state audit faulting unexplained fee hikes and unresolved Medicaid ride fraud to CDPHE's declaration that it rejects the current federal vaccine schedule. No votes were taken; the friction came in the questioning.
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“And now we have $25 million in state losses for a Medicaid rider scheme. And now you're bringing forth again that they're. It's partially implemented, but this is costing the state millions of dollars when we have disabled children not receiving services. So when is this going to get done?”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Joint Health and Human Services Committee will come to order. Mr. Shadoon, please call the roll. Representatives and Senators Barone. Present. Bradfield. Bradley. Good morning. Wright. Here. Arson. Present. Cutter. Present. Daugherty. Excused. English. Excused. Fray. Excused. Frazal. Excused. Hamrick. Excused. Judah. Here. Johnson. Here. Leader. Excused. McCormick. Here. Michael. Syngene. Present. Wright. In. Excused. Stewart. Here. Wiseman. Excused. Woog. Excused. Gilchrist. Present. Mr. Chair. Here. Members, welcome to the 2026 Joint Health Committee for our SMART ACT hearing. Let the record reflect Representative Hamrick has joined us. Members, we do have two days worth of presentations. We will try to be as efficient as possible. I want we have communicated with the departments to allow for adequate time for questions from the committee. And so putting that on the record to the departments to please make sure that with your presentations that they do not take up the entire time and that there's adequate time for members to answer questions. Obviously, there's a number of legislators in the room today, and so we will try to make sure everyone has the ability to ask questions and get those answers that they're looking for and making sure that everyone…
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