republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1215.md

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Bill	Limits On Hospital Facility Fees	On and after July 1, 2024, the act prohibits a health-care provider (provider), which is an individual provider or a health facility, or a health system, which is a corporation or organization that owns, contains, or operates 3 or more hospitals, from charging, billing, or collecting a facility fee directly from a patient that is not covered by the patient's insurance for mandatory coverage for preventive health-care services that are provided in an outpatient setting. The act defines "facility fee" as any fee that a hospital or health system charges or bills for outpatient services that is intended to compensate the hospital or health system for its operational expenses and that is separate and distinct from a professional fee charged or billed by a provider for professional medical services. The limitation on charging, billing, or collecting a facility fee does not apply to a critical access hospital, a sole community hospital in a rural or frontier area, a community clinic affiliated with a sole community hospital in a rural or frontier area, or a hospital established by the Denver health and hospital authority.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1215	Colorado HB 23-1215 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Andrew Boesenecker Emily Sirota Kyle Mullica Lisa Cutter	12	16	4	2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/46ffbc4c-8502-4d11-9175-87d40c8bc897	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1215	5ce5f349a113886767203d781b09a386e83a19c4806d096ca7d0bef3b830d0d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1215 (2023A) — Limits On Hospital Facility Fees

On and after July 1, 2024, the act prohibits a health-care provider (provider), which is an individual provider or a health facility, or a health system, which is a corporation or organization that owns, contains, or operates 3 or more hospitals, from charging, billing, or collecting a facility fee directly from a patient that is not covered by the patient's insurance for mandatory coverage for preventive health-care services that are provided in an outpatient setting. The act defines "facility fee" as any fee that a hospital or health system charges or bills for outpatient services that is intended to compensate the hospital or health system for its operational expenses and that is separate and distinct from a professional fee charged or billed by a provider for professional medical services. The limitation on charging, billing, or collecting a facility fee does not apply to a critical access hospital, a sole community hospital in a rural or frontier area, a community clinic affiliated with a sole community hospital in a rural or frontier area, or a hospital established by the Denver health and hospital authority.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 47–17 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–22 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 45–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andrew Boesenecker — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46ffbc4c-8502-4d11-9175-87d40c8bc897. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).