HB 18-1365

House Bill 18-1365, titled "Primary Care Infrastructure Creation," aims to improve primary care in Colorado by creating a collaborative within the state's Department of Public Health and Environment. This collaborative will work on payment reform for primary care services. Additionally, it requires reporting data from health insurance companies and the state Medicaid program about how much they spend on primary care. The bill has been signed into law, meaning these changes are now in effect to help enhance primary care infrastructure and spending transparency in Colorado.

Official Summary

The bill establishes a primary care payment reform collaborative in the primary care office in the department of public health and environment. To facilitate the collaborative's work, the administrator of the all-payer health claims database is to report data on primary care spending by private health insurers, insurers providing state employee health benefit plans, and the department of health care policy and financing under the state medicaid program and the children's basic health plan.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) , Read More