republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-043.md

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Bill	Out-of-network Provider Reimbursement Rate	The act corrects the reimbursement rate specified in law that a health insurance carrier is required to reimburse an out-of-network health care provider who provides either emergency services to a covered person or covered nonemergency services to a covered person at an in-network facility so that the law accurately states the reimbursement rate as the greater of:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-043	Colorado SB 20-043 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Donald Valdez Jack Tate	8	13	2	2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-11T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/58ee9e6f-4d6c-4054-9111-d6b91ba4850e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-043	c321ba5ea79fbcb37deabc18b46ec08410c00a2ca0ceb33cf73ffe77fc8de8a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-043 (2020A) — Out-of-network Provider Reimbursement Rate

The act corrects the reimbursement rate specified in law that a health insurance carrier is required to reimburse an out-of-network health care provider who provides either emergency services to a covered person or covered nonemergency services to a covered person at an in-network facility so that the law accurately states the reimbursement rate as the greater of:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (02/27/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (02/21/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 30–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Donald Valdez — primary (person)
• Jack Tate — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58ee9e6f-4d6c-4054-9111-d6b91ba4850e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).