Ballot Title Setting Board
2017-2018

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the disclosure of health care provider pricing information, and, in connection therewith, requiring a broad range of health care providers to publish fee schedules detailing the price charged for health care services, billing policies, and a list of health care professionals providing services; prohibiting noncomplying health care providers from billing for services; requiring health care providers to inform patients about the acceptance of and coverage of health care services under the patient’s insurance; and prohibiting any contract between a health insurance plan and a health care provider from restricting publication of the required health care price information.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the disclosure of health care provider pricing information, and, in connection therewith, requiring a broad range of health care providers to publish fee schedules detailing the price charged for health care services, billing policies, and a list of health care professionals providing services; prohibiting noncomplying health care providers from billing for services; requiring health care providers to inform patients about the acceptance of and coverage of health care services under the patient’s insurance; and prohibiting any contract between a health insurance plan and a health care provider from restricting publication of the required health care price information?

Hearing February 7, 2018

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 3:14 PM.

Rehearing February 21, 2018

Motion for Rehearing denied except to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles.
Hearing adjourned 12:04 PM.

* Unofficially captioned “Transparency in Billing by Health Care Providers” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.