HB23-1002 | Epinephrine Auto-injectors |
Position: | Monitor |
Calendar Notification: | Friday, February 3 2023 Health & Insurance Upon Adjournment Room 0112 (2) in house calendar. |
Short Title: | Epinephrine Auto-injectors |
Sponsors: | J. Mabrey (D) | I. Jodeh (D) / D. Roberts (D) |
Summary: | Effective January 1, 2024, the bill creates an epinephrine auto-injector affordability program (program) to provide low-cost epinephrine auto-injectors to individuals who:
The bill requires the division of insurance in the department of regulatory agencies (division) to create an application for the program and requires the division and the department of health care policy and financing to make the application available on their websites and to promote the availability of the program. The bill requires a carrier that provides coverage for prescription epinephrine auto-injectors to cap the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for all covered prescription epinephrine auto-injectors at an amount not to exceed $60 for a 2-pack of epinephrine auto-injectors. A pharmacy that dispenses epinephrine auto-injectors is authorized to collect a copayment not to exceed $60 from the individual to cover the pharmacy's costs of processing and dispensing a 2-pack of epinephrine auto-injectors. A manufacturer of epinephrine auto-injectors:
If a manufacturer fails to comply with the requirements of the bill, the manufacturer may be subject to a fine.
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Status: | 1/9/2023 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance |
HB23-1030 | Prohibit Direct-hire Fee Health-care Staff Agency |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | Tuesday, January 31 2023 Health & Insurance Upon Adjournment Room 0112 (2) in house calendar. |
Short Title: | Prohibit Direct-hire Fee Health-care Staff Agency |
Sponsors: | E. Sirota (D) / N. Hinrichsen |
Summary: | The bill prohibits a supplemental health-care staffing agency (staffing agency) from including in a contract or agreement with a health-care worker, nursing care facility, or assisted living residence a provision for liquidated damages, employment fees, or other compensation to be paid to the staffing agency if the nursing care facility or assisted living residence hires the health-care worker as a permanent employee either prior to or after the termination of the contract or agreement. A staffing agency that violates the prohibition commits a civil infraction and is subject to a monetary penalty. Further, for repeated or willful violations, the executive director of the department of labor and employment may impose monetary or administrative penalties against the staffing agency.
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Status: | 1/9/2023 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance |
HB23-1040 | Prader-Willi Syndrome |
Position: | Monitor |
Calendar Notification: | Tuesday, January 31 2023 Health & Insurance Upon Adjournment Room 0112 (3) in house calendar. |
Short Title: | Prader-Willi Syndrome |
Sponsors: | S. Lieder (D) | L. Frizell (R) / L. Cutter (D) | R. Pelton (R) |
Summary: | The bill updates information associated with Prader-Willi syndrome to conform to current laws and regulations.
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Status: | 1/9/2023 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance |
HB23-1067 | Family Intervener Program Deafblind Children |
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Calendar Notification: | Tuesday, February 7 2023 Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services 1:30 p.m. Room 0107 (1) in house calendar. |
Short Title: | Family Intervener Program Deafblind Children |
Sponsors: | M. Young (D) | M. Bradfield (R) / L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates the family and community intervener program (program) to support children who are deafblind and their families. The program provides deafblind children the services of an intervener who is specifically trained in deafblindness, building language and communication skills, and intervention strategies with children who are deafblind and their community, families, and environment. The Colorado commission for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind (commission) shall contract with an intervener program manager (manager) who has oversight over the program, the intervener activities, and the outcomes for children who are deafblind. Starting in 2025, and upon the approval of the department of health care policy and financing, the commission shall have the manager direct eligible children to receive intervener services through the home- and community-based services provided by the community first choice option of the federal "Social Security Act". The program is funded through the Colorado telephone users with disabilities fund.
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Status: | 1/19/2023 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services |
HB23-1110 | Health-care Coverage For Biomarker Testing |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Short Title: | Health-care Coverage For Biomarker Testing |
Sponsors: | D. Michaelson Jenet (D) | A. Hartsook (R) / K. Mullica (D) | J. Rich (R) |
Summary: | The bill requires all individual and group health benefit plans to provide coverage for biomarker testing if the testing is supported by medical and scientific evidence. Biomarker testing is defined as an analysis of a patient's tissue, blood, or other biospecimen for the presence of an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a specific therapeutic intervention. The bill requires the commissioner of insurance to implement biomarker testing coverage for all individual and group health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025. Biomarker testing is subject to the health benefit plan's annual deductibles, copayment, or coinsurance but is not subject to any annual or lifetime maximum benefit limit. If a carrier requires prior authorization for biomarker testing, the bill requires the carrier to use an expedited prior authorization process. Subject to federal authorization and federal financial participation, beginning July 1, 2024, the bill includes coverage for biomarker testing as part of the state medical assistance program if the testing is supported by medical and scientific evidence. Under the state medical assistance program, the bill requires an expedited utilization review and prior authorization process, as well as an appeal process if biomarker testing is denied.
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Status: | 1/23/2023 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance |
HB23-1116 | Contracts Between Carriers And Providers |
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Calendar Notification: | Tuesday, January 31 2023 Health & Insurance Upon Adjournment Room 0112 (1) in house calendar. |
Short Title: | Contracts Between Carriers And Providers |
Sponsors: | A. Hartsook (R) | L. Daugherty (D) / R. Rodriguez (D) | M. Baisley (R) |
Summary: | The bill:
If a carrier initiates a payment to a provider using, or changes the payment method to, electronic funds transfer payments, including virtual credit card payments, the bill requires the carrier to:
The bill prohibits a carrier from charging a fee for a change in the payment method to a specified electronic transaction and allows a provider's billing service to charge a fee under certain circumstances. The bill makes it an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance if a carrier violates or fails to comply with the requirements of the contract limitations and requirements.
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Status: | 1/23/2023 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance |
SB23-004 | Employment Of School Mental Health Professionals |
Position: | Monitor |
Calendar Notification: | Thursday, February 9 2023 SENATE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE 1:30 PM SCR 357 (1) in senate calendar. |
Short Title: | Employment Of School Mental Health Professionals |
Sponsors: | J. Marchman | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | Under current law, a mental health professional must be licensed by the department of education (department) in order to work in a school. The bill authorizes a school district, the state charter school institute, and a board of cooperative services that operates a school to employ certain mental health professionals who are not licensed by the department but hold a Colorado license for their profession. Before being employed, the mental health professional must satisfy other requirements for nonlicensed school employees, including a fingerprint-based criminal background check. Any mental health professional employed may be supervised by a mentor special services provider in the field in which the person is employed or a licensed administrator. |
Status: | 1/9/2023 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services |
SB23-009 | Limit Opioid Prescription And Exception For Intractable Pain |
Position: | Monitor |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Short Title: | Limit Opioid Prescription And Exception For Intractable Pain |
Sponsors: | J. Ginal (D) |
Summary: | The bill prohibits a prescriber from issuing to a patient a prescription for an opioid that will be dispensed or administered outside of a health-care facility or the prescriber's practice location if the amount of the opioid exceeds 90 morphine milligram equivalents per day, unless the patient suffers from intractable pain. |
Status: | 1/26/2023 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
SB23-014 | Disordered Eating Prevention |
Position: | Monitor |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, February 1 2023 SENATE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Upon Adjournment SCR 357 (1) in senate calendar. |
Short Title: | Disordered Eating Prevention |
Sponsors: | D. Moreno (D) / M. Lindsay (D) |
Summary: | The office and the department are required to:
The bill creates the disordered eating prevention commission (commission) in the department. The commission will have 17 members with professional or personal connections to disordered eating prevention. The purpose of the commission is to:
The bill creates the disordered eating prevention research grant program (grant program) in the department. The purpose of the grant program is to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to conduct research on risk factors for disordered eating, the impact disordered eating has on Colorado, or public health interventions that examine and address the root causes of disordered eating.
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Status: | 1/10/2023 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services |
SB23-031 | Improve Health-care Access For Older Coloradans |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Short Title: | Improve Health-care Access For Older Coloradans |
Sponsors: | J. Danielson (D) | L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates the Colorado multidisciplinary health-care provider access training program (program) to improve the health care of medically complex, costly, compromised, and vulnerable older Coloradans. The university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus shall develop, implement, and administer the program. The program may be offered to Colorado institutions of higher education with clinical health professions graduate degree programs. The program coordinates and expands geriatric training opportunities for clinical health professions graduate students (students) enrolled in participating Colorado institutions of higher education (participating institutions) across Colorado studying to become advanced practice providers; dentists; nurses; occupational therapists; pharmacists; physicians, including medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy; physical therapists; psychologists; social workers; and speech-language therapists. Students who successfully complete the program are awarded certificates and issued letters authorizing those students to become trainers for the program in clinics across the state. The bill creates the Colorado multidisciplinary health-care provider access training program advisory committee (committee) to ensure that the training for the program is consistent and collaborative across the fields of study. The committee is required to:
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Status: | 1/26/2023 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations |