Proposed budget will hit Colorado’s rural hospitals the hardest
The Joint Budget Committee had little option but to cut the amount the state’s hospitals receive under a federal matching grant program that supports their operations.
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s rural hospitals would sacrifice the most under a balanced budget proposal to be introduced in the Legislature next week.
The Joint Budget Committee had little option but to cut the amount the state’s hospitals receive under a federal matching grant program that supports their operations.
That’s because to get the grants, hospitals first make payments to the state. And those payments pushed total state revenues above a legal cap established by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the constitutional amendment adopted in 1992.
Rep. Millie Hamner says the committee reduced those hospital payments by $264 million — especially affecting rural hospitals that serve the underinsured and uninsured.
The proposal also eliminates taxpayer refunds in 2018 that would have averaged between $15 and $30.

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