Counselors - Peers - Marriage and Family Therapists - Addiction Counselors
Psychologists - Social Workers - Pre-licensure Professionals - Interns
...for a diverse, competent, and sustainable behavioral healthcare workforce.
Join COMBINE today!2026 dues are $99. COMBINE is a 501c4 nonprofit trade association and a registered nonpartisan nonprofit Small Donor Political Committee. Contributions not tax deductible.
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Are you....
... an independent provider contracted with a RAE and feel frustrated and alone working within Colorado's Medicaid system?
... interested in becoming part of the independent provider network (IPN), but feel overwhelmed by the process and the challenges your IPN colleagues face in working with Medicaid?
... a Medicaid member frustrated by the system?
If so, you're in the right place. You are not alone.
Welcome to COMBINE
COMBINE brings together Coloradans concerned about the delivery of behavioral healthcare for the Medicaid population. COMBINE is a 501c4 trade association and a member driven nonpartisan registered Small Donor Political Committee advocating for a diverse, competent, and sustainable Medicaid behavioral healthcare workforce in Colorado.
Members are both professionals that provide Medicaid behavioral healthcare and the public. COMBINE offers mutual aid to members of the IPN and empowers members to advocate for a behavioral healthcare system that includes the IPN. Join us!
What We're Doing
AdvocacyMedicaid members and providers are disadvantaged by the structure of managed care, where we cannot collectively bargain (because we are contractors) and we have no employee rights. Together we can offer experience and
commitment when advocating for the maintenance and improvement of mental healthcare delivery for Colorado. | EducationThe world of public healthcare has history, tensions, and a future. COMBINE educates members about opportunities, rules, policy, and the actors in Colorado that determine our Medicaid behavioral healthcare future. | Mutual AidCOMBINE clinics are experienced in the business of outpatient psychotherapy and support each other for success. |
- In 2022, COMBINE worked with electeds Kolker, Amabile, Fenberg, and Young on SB22-156 "Medicaid Prior Authorization And Recovery Of Payment", which prevents long clawback periods and contrains prior authorizations for outpatient mental health care.
- Starting in 2020, we were instrumental in development of the “Medicaid RAE Escalation form”
- Active participant groups provided input and collaboration for the Medicaid “Rendering Provider Oversight” rules
- In 2025-26, COMBINE drafted HB26-1139 "Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care" with Representative Junie Joseph
Clinic Directors, for quick access to important resources, visit the Resources page.
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