Date: 01/24/2012

Final
Budget Recommendations for HCPF

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Moved to accept the budget recommendation as presePASS



10:39 AM -- Budget Recommendations for HCPF

Carrie Cortiglio, legislative liaison for Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), introduced herself and John Bartholomew, budget director for HCPF. Mr. Bartholomew provided the committee with the HCPF Schedule 10, Schedule 11, and Schedule 12 (Attachment B) and provided an overview of the items contained in the documents. Mr. Bartholomew responded to questions about budget request R-5 concerning Medicaid fee-for-service reform and the request for additional FTE for this budget item, budget request R-4 concerning the Medicare Modernization Act state contribution payment and its relationship to federal funding, budget request R-12 concerning the hospital provider fee administrative true-up, the nonpriorized funding request overlap with the Department of Human Services budget, the difference between prioritized and nonprioritized items, and budget request R-13 concerning the Colorado Benefits Management System (CBMS) Electronic Document Management System.

120124 AttachB.pdf

10:54 AM

The committee continued to dialogue with Mr. Bartholomew about the HCPF budget requests, and specifically regarding the budget request related to the hospital provider fee.
BILL:Budget Recommendations for HCPF
TIME: 11:00:03 AM
MOVED:Fields
MOTION:Moved to accept the budget recommendation as presented by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0.
SECONDED:Kefalas
VOTE
Bradford
Yes
Brown
Yes
Fields
Yes
Joshi
Yes
Kefalas
Yes
Kerr J.
Yes
Massey
Yes
McCann
Yes
Peniston
Excused
Schafer S.
Yes
Young
Yes
Acree
Yes
Summers
Yes
YES: 12 NO: 0 EXC: 1 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS