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C.R.S. § 25.5-3-501

Definitions

Known as the State Health Care Policy and Financing Act

The act spans §§ 25.5-10-101 to 25.5-5-804 (305 sections).

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 ; or (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. 1395 x (aa)(4); or (II) A student-learning medical and dental clinic that is established for the purpose of student learning, offering discounted patient care as part of a program of student learning, and is physically situated within a health sciences school. (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).

Digitized from: Public.Law — Colorado Revised Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Colorado statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.