Reimbursement for Community Health Workers

Joint Budget Committee. Under current law, community health workers may be reimbursed through the Colorado medical assistance program as long as the community health worker appears on the voluntary competency-based community health worker registry verifying that the community health worker completed state-approved training and credentialing requirements.

The bill eliminates reimbursement for community health workers under the Colorado medical assistance program.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)