republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-126.md

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Bill	Timely Credentialing Of Physicians By Insurers	The act requires that when a physician applies to be credentialed as a participating physician in a health insurance carrier's (carrier's) provider network, the carrier must conclude the process of credentialing the applicant within 60 calendar days after the carrier receives the applicant's completed application. A carrier must provide each applicant written or electronic notice of the outcome of the applicant's credentialing within 10 calendar days after the conclusion of the credentialing process.Within 7 calendar days after a carrier receives an application, the carrier must provide the applicant a receipt. If a carrier receives an application but fails to provide the applicant a receipt within 7 calendar days, the carrier shall consider the applicant a participating physician, effective no later than 53 calendar days following the carrier's receipt of the application.A carrier may not deny a claim for a medically necessary covered service provided to a covered person if the service:Is a covered benefit under the covered person's health coverage plan; and	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-126	Colorado SB 21-126 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Matt Soper Rhonda Fields	10	15	2	2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00	2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1193881a-71f9-4728-9098-60cd1c06fe6f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-126	7da851382ed5456a12d7bf2023d15d782fb08980d6f3fc0ffa07e0b94e7c7ef5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-126 (2021A) — Timely Credentialing Of Physicians By Insurers

The act requires that when a physician applies to be credentialed as a participating physician in a health insurance carrier's (carrier's) provider network, the carrier must conclude the process of credentialing the applicant within 60 calendar days after the carrier receives the applicant's completed application. A carrier must provide each applicant written or electronic notice of the outcome of the applicant's credentialing within 10 calendar days after the conclusion of the credentialing process.Within 7 calendar days after a carrier receives an application, the carrier must provide the applicant a receipt. If a carrier receives an application but fails to provide the applicant a receipt within 7 calendar days, the carrier shall consider the applicant a participating physician, effective no later than 53 calendar days following the carrier's receipt of the application.A carrier may not deny a claim for a medically necessary covered service provided to a covered person if the service:Is a covered benefit under the covered person's health coverage plan; and

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (07/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 45–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1193881a-71f9-4728-9098-60cd1c06fe6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).