Colorado § 25.5-5-104 - Qualified medicare beneficiaries.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 25.5-5-104 — Qualified medicare beneficiaries., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 25.5-5-104. Qualified medicare beneficiaries.
Qualified medicare beneficiaries are medicare-eligible individuals with income and resources at a level which qualifies them as eligible under section 301 of Title III of the federal "Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988", as amended, or subsequent amending federal legislation. For purposes of this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title, such individuals shall be referred to as "qualified medicare beneficiaries". The state department is hereby designated as the single state agency to administer benefits available to qualified medicare beneficiaries in accordance with Title XIX and this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title. Such benefits are limited to medicare cost-sharing expenses as determined by the federal government. Accordingly, the state department shall not be required to provide qualified medicare beneficiaries the entire range of services set forth in section 25.5-5-102.
Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1857, § 7, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 26-4-510 as it existed prior to 2006.
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.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For article, "The Impacts of Trusts on Public Benefits for Disabled Persons", see 46 Colo. Law. 43 (Nov. 2017).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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