The bill establishes a study to be conducted by the Statewide Health Care Review Interim Committee during the 2025 interim to evaluate health-care billing practices across Colorado. The study will focus on:
Key Objectives:
Timeliness of Health-Care Billing: The committee will investigate whether patients across the state are receiving timely bills for health-care services. If patients are not receiving timely billing, the committee will work to determine the reasons behind the delays.
Potential Legislative Changes: The committee will consider potential legislative actions to ensure that all patients in Colorado are guaranteed timely billing for health-care services.
Process and Reporting:
The committee is authorized to meet up to four times during the 2025 interim to conduct its study.
Within 90 days after their final meeting, the committee must submit a report to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over health matters. The report must include:
A summary of the committee’s meetings.
Findings from the study.
Recommendations for any legislative measures that may be necessary to improve health-care billing practices and ensure timely billing for patients.
The purpose of the bill is to address potential inefficiencies or issues with the timing of health-care billing and to explore how state laws or regulations could be modified to protect consumers and ensure that patients receive timely bills for services rendered.
Summary
The bill tasks the statewide health care review interim committee
with studying health-care billing practices across the state during the 2025 interim to:
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Deduce whether patients across the state are receiving timely billing for health-care services, and if not, determine why; and
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Consider potential legislative changes to ensure that patients across the state are guaranteed timely billing for health-care services.
The committee may meet up to 4 times during the 2025 interim to
complete this study and must, within 90 days after their final meeting, submit to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over health matters a report that contains:
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A brief recap of the committee's meetings;
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The committee's findings; and
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Recommendations, if any, regarding legislative measures that may be taken to improve health-care billing practices to ensure that patients receive timely billing for health-care services.
