HB 18-1330

HB 18-1330 is a Colorado bill that provides extra money from the state to certain doctors and clinics that treat cancer patients using specific drugs. This additional payment helps these providers who lost income due to changes in federal drug reimbursement rules. The bill has been signed into law, meaning it will now provide financial support to those healthcare providers affected by the new federal regulations.

Official Summary

Joint Budget Committee. The bill authorizes a supplemental payment of state-only money to providers under the medicaid program of certain office-administered drugs relating to oncology who experienced a decrease in aggregate reimbursements in the 2017-18 fiscal year as a result of the implementation of the federal department of health and human services final rule for covered outpatient drugs, 81 FR 5169, published in the federal register on February 1, 2016. The bill directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to distribute a supplemental payment to qualified providers, as defined in the bill, and includes provisions for determining the amount of each qualified provider's supplemental payment. The bill authorizes the medical services board to adopt rules as necessary. The bill appropriates general fund money to the department for the supplemental payment to qualified providers. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More

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