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State health care agency loses leader

Medicaid under fire for mistakes, faces big budget cuts

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Mike LaSusa
Mar 31, 2026
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Kim Bimestefer, former head of the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (Credit: HCPF/Facebook)

The top official in charge of administering health care assistance to Coloradans is leaving the agency she has led since 2018.

Kim Bimestefer, the head of the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, or HCPF, reportedly chose to resign rather t…

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