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. The bill allows the department of health care policy and financing to reimburse community health workers for services rendered to medicaid members after receiving any necessary federal authorization. Reimbursement for community health worker services is subject to available appropriations.

The bill authorizes the state treasurer to transfer $1,403,512 from the controlled maintenance trust fund to the general fund on July 1, 2025, to cover a portion of the cost of reimbursement for community health workers for state fiscal year 2025-26.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)