HB 24-1218

House Bill 24-1218, also known as the Ground Ambulance Service Rates & Billing bill, aims to regulate how ambulance services are paid for in Colorado. It allows local governments and their contracted ambulance providers to set rates that insurance companies must cover. The bill also sets rules for out-of-network ambulance services, preventing them from charging patients extra fees beyond what they normally pay like copays or deductibles. Since the bill has been signed into law, it will now be implemented with these new regulations affecting both ambulance service providers and their customers who use these services.

Official Summary

For ground ambulance services, the bill: Allows a political subdivision, or an ambulance service providing ambulance services on behalf of the political subdivision, to submit to the division of insurance the established rates for the ambulance services; Establishes reimbursement rates for ambulance services that are out-of-network; and Prohibits an out-of-network ambulance service from billing a covered person any outstanding balance for a covered service not paid for by a carrier, except for any coinsurance, deductible, or copayment amount required to be paid by the covered person.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)