Colorado clinicians react with shock and sadness to rate changes for mental health care

This Spring, Michelle Lefco-Rockey, the owner of Creekside Collaborative Therapy in Greenwood Village, said she that got word from the state agency in charge of Medicaid about a possible change in rates. Then, this week, she got confirmation.

“It kind of was a shock on Friday morning to wake up, whatever time I woke up and checked my emails, and that was the first email that I saw.”

The email notification, from one of the companies that manages regional Medicaid reimbursement, said that elevated payments for services like therapy, would decrease, with some exceptions…

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