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      HOUSE BILL 09-1004
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Apuan, Acree, Frangas, Gerou, Kefalas,
      Kerr A., Labuda, Marostica, Middleton, Primavera, Riesberg, Ryden, Todd,
      Vigil;
      also SENATOR(S) Boyd, Gibbs, Groff, Newell, Tapia.
      
      
      Concerning the authority of organizations providing
           all-inclusive care for the elderly to employ physicians.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  25-3-103.7 (1) (d) and (6), Colorado Revised Statutes,
      are amended, and the said 25-3-103.7 (1) is further amended BY THE
      ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH, to read:
      
           25-3-103.7.  Employment of physicians - when permissible -
      conditions - definitions.  (1)  For purposes of this section:
      
           (d)  "Health care facility" means a hospital, hospice, community
      mental health center, federally qualified health center, school-based health
      center, or rural health clinic, or PACE organization.
      
           (f.5)  "PACE organization" means an organization providing
      a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly pursuant to
      section 25.5-5-412, C.R.S.
      
           (6)  When applying for initial facility licensure and upon
      each application for license renewal, every health care facility
      licensed or certified by the department that employs a physician shall report
      to the department when applying for initial facility licensure and upon each
      application for license renewal, the number of physicians on the health care
      facility's medical staff. and The report shall separately identify the number
      of such physicians who are employed by the health care facility under
      separate contract to the health care facility and independent of the health
      care facility.  A health care facility that is a FQHC, rural health clinic, or
      school-based health center, or PACE organization that employs a
      physician shall report the information required by this subsection (6) to the
      department by January 1 of each year.
      
           SECTION 2.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
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      Terrance D. Carroll                    Peter C. Groff
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO