CO Code § 25.5-5-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 5 - Colorado Medical Assistance Act - Services and Programs|Part 1 - Mandatory Provisions|§ 25.5-5-101. Mandatory Provisions - Eligible Groups

  In order to participate in the medicaid program, the federal government requires the state to provide medical assistance to certain eligible groups. Pursuant to federal law and except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person who is eligible for medical assistance under the mandated groups specified in this section shall receive both the mandatory services that are specified in sections 25.5-5-102 and 25.5-5-103 and the optional services that are specified in sections 25.5-5-202 and 25.5-5-203. Subject to the availability of federal financial participation, the following are the individuals or groups that are mandated under federal law to receive benefits under this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title:   Repealed.    Parents and caretaker relatives living with a dependent child who meet the eligibility criteria pursuant to section 1902 (a)(10)(A) of the federal “Social Security Act”, including those who subsequently would have become ineligible under such eligibility criteria because of increased earnings or increased hours of employment whose eligibility is specified for a period of time by the federal government;    Pregnant women whose family income does not exceed one hundred thirty-three percent of the federal poverty line, adjusted for family size, who meet the requirements pursuant to section 1902 (a)(10)(A) of the federal “Social Security Act”. Once initial eligibility has been established, the pregnant woman is continuously eligible throughout the pregnancy and for the sixty days following the pregnancy, even if the woman's eligibility would otherwise terminate during such period due to an increase in income.    A newborn child born of a woman who is categorically needy. Such child is deemed medicaid-eligible on the date of birth and remains eligible for one year.    Children for whom adoption assistance or foster care maintenance payments are made under Title IV-E of the federal “Social Security Act”, as amended, including foster care children, pursuant to section 1902 (a)(10)(A)(i)(IX) of the federal “Social Security Act”, who are under twenty-six years of age, who were in foster care under the responsibility of the state or a tribe, and who were enrolled in medicaid under the state medicaid plan when they turned eighteen years of age;    Individuals receiving supplemental security income;    Individuals receiving mandatory state supplement, including but not limited to individuals receiving old age pensions;    Institutionalized individuals who were eligible for medical assistance in December 1973;    Individuals who would be eligible except for the increase in old-age, survivors, and disability insurance under Pub.L. 92-336;    Individuals who become ineligible for cash assistance as a result of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance cost-of-living increases after April 1977;    Disabled widows or widowers fifty through sixty years of age who have become ineligible for federal supplemental security income or state supplementation as a result of becoming eligible for federal social security survivor's benefits, in accordance with the social security act, 42 U.S.C. sec. 1383c;    Individuals with income and resources at a level which qualifies them as medicare-eligible under section 301 of Title III of the federal “Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act”;    Children under the age of nineteen who meet the eligibility criteria pursuant to section 1902 (a)(10)(A) of the federal “Social Security Act”.         A qualified alien who entered the United States before August 22, 1996, who meets the exceptions described in the federal “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”, Public Law 104-193, as amended, shall receive benefits under this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title.      A qualified alien who entered the United States on or after August 22, 1996, shall not be eligible for benefits under this article or article 4 or 6 of this title, except as provided in section 25.5-5-103 (3), for five years after the date of entry into the United States unless he or she meets the exceptions described in the federal “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”, Public Law 104-193, as amended. (b) (I) A qualified alien who entered the United States on or after August 22, 1996, shall not be eligible for benefits under this article or article 4 or 6 of this title, except as provided in section 25.5-5-103 (3), for five years after the date of entry into the United States unless he or she meets the exceptions described in the federal “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”, Public Law 104-193, as amended.    Notwithstanding the five-year waiting period established in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph (b), but subject to the availability of sufficient appropriations and the receipt of federal financial participation, the state department may provide benefits under this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title to a pregnant woman who is a qualified alien and a child under nineteen years of age who is a qualified alien so long as such woman or child meets eligibility criteria other than citizenship.          Notwithstanding any other provision of this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title, as a condition of eligibility for medical assistance under this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title, a legal immigrant shall agree to refrain from executing an affidavit of support for the purpose of sponsoring an alien on or after July 1, 1997, under rules promulgated by the immigration and naturalization service, or any successor agency, during the pendency of such legal immigrant's receipt of medical assistance. Nothing in this subsection (3) shall be construed to affect a legal immigrant's eligibility for medical assistance under this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title based upon such legal immigrant's responsibilities under an affidavit of support entered into before July 1, 1997.    An asset test shall not be applied as a condition of eligibility for individuals or families described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), and (e) of subsection (1) of this section.     History. Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1854, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2009: (2)(b) amended,(HB 09-1353), ch. 360, p. 1869, § 1, effective July 1, 2010. L. 2010: (4)(c) added,(HB 10-1043), ch. 92, p. 312, § 1, effective April 15; (1)(m) amended,(HB 10-1422), ch. 419, p. 2110, § 143, effective August 11. L. 2011: (3) amended,(HB 11-1303), ch. 264, p. 1168, § 67, effective August 10. L. 2014: (1)(a) repealed and (1)(b), (1)(c), (1)(d), (1)(e), (1)(m), and (4) amended,(SB 14-067), ch. 12, p. 111, § 3, effective February 27.    Editor's note:    This section is similar to former § 26-4-201 as it existed prior to 2006.    Prior to the amendment to subsection (4) in 2014, subsection (4)(b)(II) provided for the repeal of subsection (4)(b), effective July 1, 2007. (SeeL. 2006, p. 1854.)     Cross references:   For provisions of the federal “Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988” referenced in this section, see section 301 of Pub.L. 100-360, codified at 42 U.S.C. sec. 1396a et seq.