Latest from CO Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF)

This week HCPF hosted a webinar outlining Medicaid Primary Care Payment Reform. If you are a Medicaid provider, I encourage you to click here to watch the recorded webinar so you are aware of important upcoming changes to Medicaid primary care payments!

This state legislative session saw the passage of bill regarding Medicaid's Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC). The Center for Health Progress (formerly CCMU) managed some of the education regarding the ACC during this process and shared this wrap-up info recently:

• "HB 1353 was introduced and amended with stakeholder feedback, and the bill is intended to codify the ACC in statute and formalize some reporting requirements related to Phase 2. This will help legislative engagement as well as HCPF budgetary requests in the future, which will lead to  
• Many of you signed on in support of the bill. For reference, I have attached the latest HCPF fact sheet I have, which might not be the most updated one. If your organization is missing from the fact sheet, feel free to reach out to Zach Lynkiewicz with HCPF to get the latest version.
• This bill passed in the final days of the session, despite a rocky start in its first committee. It is now awaiting the governor's signature. Hard work from many groups made this bill happen, so thank you.
• We were able to use this opportunity to raise legislators' understanding and knowledge of the ACC, and we anticipate this to be an ongoing need.

ACC General Legislative Education

• With all of your help, we created the finalized fact sheet sharing organizations' support of the ACC as a concept as well as the concepts of ACC phase 2. We encouraged everyone to share the handout in their own meetings with legislators. The final sheet is attached.
• Center for Health Progress lobbyists met with 6 prioritized legislators who are seen as health experts to ensure that they have the adequate background and understanding of the ACC so they can engage in conversations at the Capitol related to the bill or outside of the bill. The meetings were well-received, and when appropriate, we had constituent organizations follow up via email with those legislators to confirm the support within their districts.
• Initially, we had planned on meeting with many more legislators and contacting the remainder via email; however, as the legislative session swung into high-speed at its halfway point, it became more challenging to set up meetings with legislators without a bill at hand. We had to prioritize which legislators to target and hope to get to most everyone through the bill discussion.

ACC Phase 2 RFP Released!

• As many of you have seen already, the RFP for Phase 2 is public with the deadline for bids on July 28."