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Bill Detail: SB25-228

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Title Enterprise Disability Buy-in Premiums
Status Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole (04/01/2025)
Bill Subjects
  • Health Care & Health Insurance
  • State Revenue & Budget
House Sponsors S. Bird (D)
E. Sirota (D)
Senate Sponsors J. Bridges (D)
J. Amabile (D)
House Committee
Senate Committee Appropriations
Date Introduced 03/31/2025
AI Summary
Summary

Joint Budget Committee. Under current law, there are 2 programs
available to low-income individuals to buy in to the state medical
assistance program: One for adults with disabilities and one for children
with disabilities (medicaid buy-in programs). Individuals who participate
in either program pay a premium based on their family income. The
premiums are credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund. The premiums
credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund are used to offset the costs of
providing the medicaid buy-in programs. The costs of providing the
medicaid buy-in programs are also offset by the money in the healthcare
affordability and sustainability fee cash fund in the Colorado healthcare
affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department
of health care policy and financing (HCPF).
The bill repeals the existing medicaid buy-in cash fund and creates
the healthcare affordability and sustainability medicaid buy-in cash fund
(buy-in cash fund) within CHASE and directs that individuals who
participate in the existing medicaid buy-in programs pay their premiums
into the buy-in cash fund. The bill creates a medicaid buy-in enterprise
support board within CHASE to support the existing enterprise with the
implementation of the medicaid buy-in program, including consulting
with HCPF and the state medical services board on the amount of the
premiums for and other components of the medicaid buy-in programs.
Because CHASE is an enterprise for purposes of the Taxpayer's Bill of
Rights, its revenue does not count against the state fiscal year spending
limit.
The bill also makes conforming amendments.

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