2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 25.5 - HEALTH CARE POLICY AND FINANCING (§§ 25.5-1-101 — 25.5-11-101) › INDIGENT CARE (§§ 25.5-3-101 — 25.5-3-507) › Article 3 - INDIGENT CARE (§§ 25.5-3-101 — 25.5-3-507) › Part 5 - HEALTH-CARE BILLING FOR INDIGENT PATIENTS RECEIVING SERVICES NOT REIMBURSED THROUGH THE COLORADO INDIGENT CARE PROGRAM (§§ 25.5-3-501 — 25.5-3-507) › Section 25.5-3-501 - [Effective 7/1/2026] Definitions

As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Health-care facility" means:
(a)
A hospital licensed as a general hospital pursuant to part 1 of article
3
of title
25
;
(b)
A hospital established pursuant to section
23-21-503
or
25-29-103
;
(c)
Any freestanding emergency department licensed pursuant to section
25-1.5-114
;
(d)
Any outpatient health-care facility that is licensed as an on-campus department or service of a hospital or that is listed as an off-campus location under a hospital's license, except:
(I)
A federally qualified health center, as defined in the federal "Social Security Act",
42 U.S.C. sec. 1395x (aa)(4)
; or
(II)
A student-learning medical and dental clinic that is established for the purpose of student learning and offering discounted patient care as part of a program of student learning and is physically situated within a health sciences school; or
(e)
A critical access hospital as defined in section 25-1.5-114.5.
(2)
"Health-care services" has the same meaning as set forth in section
10-16-102 (33)
.
(3)
"Licensed health-care professional" means any health-care professional who is registered, certified, or licensed pursuant to title 12 or who provides services under the supervision of a health-care professional who is registered, certified, or licensed pursuant to title 12, and who provides health-care services in a health-care facility.
(4)
"Non-CICP health-care services" means health-care services provided in a health-care facility for which reimbursement under the Colorado indigent care program, established in part 1 of this article 3, is not available.
(5)
"Qualified patient" means an individual whose household income is not more than two hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level and who received a health-care service at a health-care facility.
(6)
"Screen" or "screening" means a process identified in rule by the state department whereby health-care facilities assess a patient's circumstances related to eligibility criteria and determine whether the patient is likely to qualify for public health-care coverage or discounted care, inform the patient of the health-care facility's determination, and provide information to the patient about how the patient can enroll in public health-care coverage.
(7)
"Uninsured" means an uninsured individual, as defined in section
10-22-113 (5)(d)
.
Amended by 2024 Ch. 439,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2026.
Added by 2021 Ch. 435, § 1, eff. 9/7/2021.
L. 2021: Entire part added, (HB 21-1198), ch. 2874, p. 2874, § 1, effective September 7.
2024 Ch. 439, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
2021 Ch. 435, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.