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Committee backs bill to study and strengthen Colorado’s behavioral health crisis response
Summary
Committee advanced legislation directing the Behavioral Health Administration and Department of Public Safety to convene stakeholders, map crisis‑response capacity, and pursue federal reimbursement pathways including up to 60 days of inpatient coverage under Medicaid waivers.
A bipartisan measure to strengthen Colorado’s behavioral‑health crisis response moved out of the House Health and Human Services Committee with a favorable recommendation to the Committee of the Whole.
Representative Bradfield, the bill’s House sponsor, told the panel the bill seeks to catalog existing resources such as co‑responder teams and mobile crisis units, identify gaps in the crisis continuum and reimbursement shortfalls, and explore federal options to expand inpatient Medicaid reimbursement. "This bill is … geared to advance and…
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