Health-Care Payment Programs

     The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) to formally withdraw, rescind, amend, or suspend the implementation of state plan amendment 24-0043, and any substantially similar state plan amendment submitted to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services, that authorizes performance-based reductions or redistributions of hospital supplemental medical assistance program payments under the hospital transformation program created through the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise. HCPF is prohibited from implementing or adopting rules implementing any reduction, recoupment, or redistribution of hospital supplemental medical assistance program payments authorized pursuant to the hospital transformation program.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)