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Senate committee backs bill to preserve, merge children's home-and-community waiver programs
Summary
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advanced House Bill 25-1003 to the committee of the whole with a favorable recommendation, a move sponsors say will create a new Children with Complex Health Needs waiver to preserve services for more than 2,500 children and avoid interruptions in Health First Colorado coverage.
Senator Cutter urged the Senate Health and Human Services Committee to advance House Bill 25-1003, legislation to merge two Medicaid home-and-community-based services waivers for children and establish state authority for a new Children with Complex Health Needs waiver.
The measure, sponsors and department officials said, would combine the Children’s Home and Community-Based Services waiver (CHCBS) and the Children with Life-Limiting Illness waiver (CLLI) into a single waiver to “streamline home and community based services for children's waiver programs, expand access to service and ... ensure current CHCBS waiver members have continued access to waiver services,” Senator Cutter said.
The bill’s sponsor and department witnesses said the change is intended to prevent interruptions in Health First…
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