Legislation


SB 93 – Colorado

Status: Enacted
Year Introduced: 2023
Link: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-093

Increase Consumer Protections Medical Transactions. Concerning increasing consumer protections in various medical transactions. Makes it a deceptive trade practice to violate provisions relating to billing practices, surprise billing, and balance billing laws; and requires a health-care provider or health-care facility to provide, upon request of a prospective patient, an estimate of the total cost of a health-care service (service) to a person who intends to self-pay for the service (self-pay estimate). The bill includes requirements for the self-pay estimate and caps the amount by which the final, total cost of the service may exceed the self-pay estimate, with exceptions for emergency or unforeseen, medically necessary services required during the service. The bill makes it a deceptive trade practice to violate provisions relating to the self-pay estimate.


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