First Regular Session

Sixty-second General Assembly

LLS NO. R99-0115.01 Debbie Haskins

STATE OF COLORADO

BY REPRESENTATIVE Clarke

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 99-1007

CONCERNING THE REIMBURSEMENT RATE FOR PROVIDERS IN THE PROGRAM FOR THE MEDICALLY INDIGENT.

WHEREAS, Safety net clinics and hospitals that participate in the program for the medically indigent receive reimbursement rates ($65.19 per hospital visit and $18.91 per clinic visit) that are below cost for providing quality health care to medically indigent recipients; and

WHEREAS, The reimbursement amount established annually in the Long Appropriation Act is inadequate to provide quality, continuous health care services to patients; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-second General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:

That the program for the medically indigent pay a higher reimbursement rate to participating providers in the specialty and out­state programs.

Be it Further Resolved, That the entire appropriation for services provided by safety net clinics and out­state providers participating in the program for the medically indigent should be paid to the participating clinics and out­state providers and that the joint budget committee and the department of health care policy and financing should determine a process to be followed in the event that there are unexpended funds so that funds are not returned or do not revert to the general fund at the end of a fiscal year.