The primary bill sponsors, Representatives Martinez and Winter T., introduced House Bill 25-1288 to the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill authorizes the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) to accept monetary gifts from private and public sources for the Primacy Care Fund. Any gifts designated for a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) must seek a federal match, and upon authorization, be allocated at 115 percent of the total gift amount to the FQHC. However, any gifts donated by a FQHC may not be allocated back to a FQHC. The bill also permits a FQHC to establish a subsidiary company to provide additional fee-for-service services outside of the FQHC’s Medicaid encounter rate if the services have been historically provided and reimbursements from HCPF remain budget neutral.

Previous committee discussion was held on 03/18/2025.