A bipartisan coalition of state lawmakers representing rural Colorado is calling on the state's Medicaid agency to delay a $60 million funding clawback that would affect 28 hospitals statewide.

A letter signed by Reps. Dusty Johnson, R-Fort Morgan, and Matthew Martinez, D-Monte Vista, and Sens. Rod Pelton, R-Cheyenne Wells, and Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, says the Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing should hold off on asking the hospitals for repayment, as the agency is planning to appeal the court ruling in which the state sided with UCHealth over provider fee money.

The case, which was resolved in a Denver District Court in May, arose when UCHealth, a private nonprofit, purchased two public hospitals in Fort Collins and Colorado Springs. Despite this, HCPF never reclassified

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