COLORADO, USA (KRDO) – Families across Colorado are now in a desperate search to find new ways to get to much-needed medical appointments, as the state’s most popular company Medride is set to have its contract with Colorado Medicaid suspended on Friday.
Debra Newman and her son Ryan Roth live in the outskirts of Cañon City where a long medical commute has become their new normal.
In February 2024, Ryan found a mass in the middle of his back, which later revealed that he had a rare blood disease– one that only affects 1 in 200,000 people. It left him in need of getting blood transfusions every 21 days.
The disease is so rare that they say there is only one doctor in all of Colorado who can treat it. Unfortunately for them, that doctor is nowhere near their home in Cañon City, but instead more than two hours away at the UCHealth Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
Colo. Medicaid suspends contract with MedRide, many now scrambling for rides to appointments
