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Colorado Medicaid Participatory Action Incubator (MPAI) Challenge

A collaborative, community-driven process to vet, validate, and vote on the best companies, technologies, solutions, and models to address Medicaid community engagement/work requirements.

Check out our Semifinalist companies
Register for our Host Q&A
Learn more about MPAI

Join the MPAI Challenge as a Host

What to Expect

We are looking for organizations/entities regularly interfacing with Medicaid members in Colorado to serve as MPAI hosts. As a host, your job is to ensure that the proposed solution works as intended and that piloting it at the organizational or company level is feasible. You would pilot with companies through 2027, including an interim and final report for them to complete.

Over the coming months, you will have a chance to learn more about this process and meet with the Companies to hear their pitches. Please join us on the following dates! 

  • October 5: Host Q & A (Optional; FAQs and slideshow will be provided)

  • October 29: Host Orientation 

  • November 10: Pilot Interviewing

Timeline

September 8 | Semifinal Application Opens

September 24 | Semifinal Application Closes 

September 25 | Semifinal Judging Begins 

October 5 | Host Q&A 

October 9 | Semifinal Judging Closes

October 13 | Semifinal Judging Consensus Meeting

October 21 | Finalists Announced | 2026 Prime Health Innovation Summit

October 29 | Host Orientation

November 10 | Pilot Interviewing (sessions throughout the day)

About the Challenge Companies

Check out this brief overview of the Semifinal Companies.

About the Challenge Judges

For the MPAI Challenge, our judging panel includes stakeholders from all the groups we interviewed during our Discovery Phase. This includes Medicaid Members, Volunteer-based organizations, Regional Accountable Entities, Counties, Providers, Higher-Education Representatives, Job Training Organizations, and Community Advocacy Groups. We also welcomed judges from our Fishbowl audience, which was made up of Technologists. Judges evaluate competing 

FAQs

  • As a host, your job is to ensure that the proposed solution works as intended and that piloting it at the organizational or company level is feasible. Over the coming months, you will have a chance to learn more about this process and meet with the Companies to hear their pitches, starting with the Q&A Session on October 5.

  • You must be an organization/entity regularly interfacing with Medicaid members in Colorado. This can include primary care, behavioral health, hospitals, payers, local health agencies, school-based health centers, community organizations, and more.

    You must be open to hosting a funded pilot with a leading digital health technology.

  • Please fill out the Host Interest form.

    Register to attend the Host Matching Event on November 10th.

    Register to attend the Final Event on October 21, 2026, at this year’s Innovation Summit: From Disruption to Discovery.

  • Nothing! We are not charging a registration fee for Hosts. We strive to maximize accessibility and participation and don't want location or cost to be a barrier. We're proud to spread the word to anyone who wants to see the finalists pitch, learn about the Challenge, or explore hosting a pilot.

  • We'll announce the finalists on October 21. Be sure to check back here for the full list! You can check out our list of semifinalist companies here.