The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below:

Announcement:

• Expanding Health Related Social Needs Services in Colorado Stakeholder Kickoff Meeting - Monday, March 11, 2024

General OCL Meetings:

• Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Advisory Committee Meeting

• Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting

• POSTPONED: Host Home Oversight Stakeholder Meeting, NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 2 p.m. MT 

Announcement

Expanding Health Related Social Needs Services in Colorado Stakeholder Kickoff Meeting - Monday, March 11, 2024

HCPF is beginning our work to engage stakeholders about how Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid program) and Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) can better support the health related social needs (HRSN) of our members. A kick-off meeting will be hosted to present on HRSN initiatives underway at HCPF, national opportunities, collaborations across the state, and to collect input from attendees on their priorities.

All stakeholders are welcome, including those who perform social needs assessments and referrals or those who provide or receive those services.

The meeting will be held:

Monday, March 11, 2024

2:30 to 4 p.m. MT

Register Here via Zoom

General OCL Meetings

Please find a general OCL meeting announcement listed below. Information about these and other OCL meetings is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Advisory Committee Meeting

The purpose of the Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Advisory committee, formerly the Spinal Cord Injury Advisory Committee, is for advocates, providers, members, case managers, and other interested stakeholders to collaborate with and advise HCPF as it reviews elements of the Complementary and Integrative Health Waiver.

These meetings are held quarterly (February, May, August, and November) on the third Wednesday of the month at 10 to 11:15 a.m. MT. All interested stakeholders are welcome.

For more information, see the Complementary and Integrative Health Advisory Committee webpage.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024

10:30 to 11:45 a.m. MT

Join via Google Meet

Join via Phone:

1-601-526-1795, PIN: 330 218 839#

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Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting

This meeting focuses on Medicaid-related developments related to Nursing Facility reimbursement and benefits. This includes, but is not limited to, procedural reviews, benefit interactions, policy clarifications, and cyclical business operations.

The Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 1 to 3 p.m. MT. All interested stakeholders are welcome.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024

1 to 3 p.m. MT

Join via Google Meet

Join via Phone:

1-401-379-3164, PIN: 406 137 468#

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POSTPONED: Host Home Oversight Stakeholder Meeting

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 2 p.m. MT

NOTE: The Host Home Oversight Stakeholder meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, has been cancelled. If you have copied this meeting from the OCL Stakeholder Engagement Calendar, please delete it. This meeting has been postponed to the next regularly scheduled date, Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 2 p.m. MT. The March meeting is on the OCL calendar, where you can copy it to your own calendar.

This is a series of stakeholder meetings relating to House Bill 23-1197 Host Home Oversight. Interested stakeholders may include members, advocates, caregivers, case management agencies, community centered boards, families, home and community-based services providers and waiver recipients. These meetings will focus on current and proposed recommendations for Host Home Providers. All interested stakeholders are welcome.

Host Home Oversight meetings will be held monthly on the third Wednesday of the month at 2 to 3 p.m. MT, from Jan. 17, 2024, to June 12, 2024.

Meeting information will be found on the Host Home Oversight Stakeholder Workgroup webpage.

The next meeting will be held:

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

2 to 3 p.m. MT

Join via Google Meet

Join via Phone:

1-513-480-5185, PIN: ‪753329 128#

Need to Make an Accommodation Request for One of Our General OCL or ARPA-Related Stakeholder Meetings?

Reasonable accommodations for all OCL and ARPA-related stakeholder meetings will be provided upon request for persons with disabilities. Auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities and language services for individuals whose first language is not English may be provided upon request. Please notify John Barry at 303-866-3173 or John.R.Barry@state.co.us or the 504/ADA Coordinator at hcpf504ada@state.co.us at least one week prior to the meeting to make arrangements.

General OCL Meetings are on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

ARPA-Related Meetings are on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Looking for Prior OCL Communications?

Do you know about the OCL LTSS Newsletter Archive? On this page, you can:

• Search OCL newsletters back to January 2022

• Subscribe to the newsletter

• Keep track of OCL announcements, meeting reminders, and memos