Starting in April, Colorado will see the largest shift in how people get their health insurance since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014.
About 325,000 people in Colorado are expected to be disenrolled from Medicaid as federal rules requiring states to keep them on during the COVID-19 public health emergency come to an end, said Kim Bimestefer, executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
That’s comparable to the 400,000 people who joined Medicaid in the first two years of its expansion to slightly higher-income groups in 2014 and 2015, she said.
It’s just one of a series of changes coming this year as the federal government’s COVID-19 public health emergency — and the expansions of social programs that came with it — comes to an end.