BE3B3E7028C4F08D872589A4006A7909 Hearing Summary

PUBLIC
BILL SUMMARY For HB23-1226

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Date May 3, 2023
Location SCR 357

HB23-1226 - Referred to Senate Appropriations

Attachment Tag

File Name

Attachment B

Attachment B - Combined.pdf

Attachment C

Attachment C.pdf

01:23:01 PM

Senator Roberts and Senator Will, co-prime bill sponsors, presented House Bill 23-1226 concerning requiring hospitals to disclose additional information for the purposes of the hospital expenditure report, which the bill renames the hospital transparency report, produced by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF). The new reporting requirements include details on specific revenue and expenditure streams, including historical data. HCPF may enforce data collection procedures through corrective action plans or fines. Where HCPF determines a hospitalâs noncompliance is knowing or willful or there is a repeated pattern of noncompliance, HCPF may set a fine amount up to $20,000 per week until the hospital takes corrective action. The bill requires also hospitals to provide patients with a plain language description of the services billed and disclose that the patient has the right to further billed services information.

Committee members asked the panel questions.

01:36:12 PM

Ms. Katherine Mulready,
representing the Colorado Hospital Association, testified to amend the
bill.

01:38:41 PM

Executive Director
Kim Bimestefer, representing the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy
and Financing, testified in support of the bill.

Special Financing Division Director Nancy Dolson, representing the Colorado
Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, testified in support of
the bill.

Committee members asked the panel questions.

01:47:03 PM

Mr. Robert Smith,
representing the Colorado Business Group on Health, testified in support
of the bill.

Mr. Josh Benn, representing the Department of Personnel and Administration,
testified in support of the bill.

Christina Walker, representing Healthier Colorado, testified in support
of the bill.

Mr. Kenny Maestas, representing The Colorado Cross Disability Coalition,
testified in support of the bill.

01:55:51 PM

Dr. Ge Bai, representing themself, testified in support of the bill.

01:59:14 PM

Ms. Anne Ladd, representing
Peak Health Alliance, testified in support of the bill. Additional written
testimony may be found in Attachment B.

01:59:49 PM

The committee recessed.

02:06:50 PM

The committee resumed.

02:07:20 PM

Senator Will introduced
amendment L.015 (Attachment C).

02:10:15 PM	Motion	Adopt amendment L.015 (Attachment C).
	Moved	Will
	Seconded

	Buckner	No
	Cutter	No
	Jaquez Lewis	No
	Mullica	No
	Rich	Yes
	Smallwood	Yes
	Will	Yes
	Ginal	No
	Fields	No
		YES: 3 NO: 6 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: FAIL

02:11:56 PM	Motion	Refer House Bill 23-1226 to the Committee on Appropriations.
	Moved	Will
	Seconded

	Buckner	Yes
	Cutter	Yes
	Jaquez Lewis	Yes
	Mullica	Yes
	Rich	No
	Smallwood	No
	Will	Yes
	Ginal	Yes
	Fields	Yes
	Final	YES: 7 NO: 2 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

HB23-1226 - Referred to Senate Appropriations

Colorado General Assembly