Grant will help coordinate care for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees

DENVER – The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has received a $13.6 million grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement a program to coordinate care for members who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.

The program, called the State Demonstration to Integrate Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees, will integrate and coordinate physical, behavioral and social-health needs for dual enrollees in both Medicare and Medicaid.

Colorado is one of six states to receive the grant money and will begin enrolling people in the program later this summer.

In Colorado, those members with dual eligibility make up about…