ColoradoColorado Medicaid Access to Primary Care Services
What it does
The bill prohibits the department of health care policy and financing (department) from denying a medicaid member (member) the ability to purchase primary care services or enter into a direct primary care agreement. A member who purchases direct primary care services from a direct primary health-care provider or enters into a direct primary care agreement must sign a document acknowledging that the direct primary health-care provider is enrolled in the Colorado medical assistance program only as an ordering, prescribing, and referring provider; that the direct primary health-care provider does not accept medicaid payments for the services rendered; that the member cannot submit a claim for medicaid reimbursement for the services rendered by the direct primary health-care provider; and that the member retains the right to receive primary care services from a primary care provider who is enrolled in the Colorado medical assistance program.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 2Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone IndefinitelyLatest
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.015 (Attachment I). Result: fail.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.013 (Attachment H). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.008 (Attachment Q). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.003 (Attachment G). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.019 (Attachment S). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.017 (Attachment J). Result: fail.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.004 (Attachment M). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.007 (Attachment P). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1096, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. Result: fail.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.006 (Attachment O). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Postpone House Bill 26-1096 indefinitely using a reversal of the previous roll call. There was no objection to the use of the reverse roll call, therefore, the bill was postponed indefinitely. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment N). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.018 (Attachment L). Result: fail.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.016 (Attachment K). Result: fail.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.011 (Attachment R). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 25Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human ServicesMinor
- Feb 23House Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed House
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 20House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- Feb 17House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment L). Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1096, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 3Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human ServicesIntroduced
- Apr 2Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone IndefinitelyLatest