Overview
House Bill (HB)19-1320 requires non-profit tax exempt general hospitals, Denver Health Medical Center, and University of Colorado Hospital, to complete a community health needs assessment every three years and an annual community benefit implementation plan every year. These hospitals are required to report to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) the following:
- Certain community benefits
- Costs
- Shortfalls in the preceding year
Any hospital not required to report is encouraged to do so.
Each hospital is required to convene a public meeting at least once a year that will be used to seek feedback on the hospital's community benefit activities and the hospital's community benefit implementation plan. Hospitals are required to invite the following entities to participate:
- Representatives from local public and local government agencies
- Representatives from certain state agencies
- The general public
HB19-1320: Hospital Community Benefit Accountability
HB 23-1243, Hospital Community Benefit, expands on the previous legislation of HB 19-1320 by including changes to hospitals' community benefit activity requirements, and imposes certain requirements on public meetings regarding hospitals' community benefit activities and implementation plans.
HB23-1243: Hospital Community Benefit
Requirement changes between HB 19-1320 and HB 23-1243 include the following:
1. Hospital requirements on invite list for public meetings:
- Posting the invitation on hospital website
- Social media page(s)
- Hospitals e-newsletter
- Email list(s)
- Posted at least 30 days prior to meeting date
2. Share previous years' community benefit activities:
- Amount funded for each activity
- Description of how activities and funding align with community priorities
3. Required to provide evidence showing:
- How investment improves community health outcomes
- How the investment directly corresponds to community identified needs
4. Submit the following to HCPF:
- Details of who attended meeting
- Topics discussed
- Decisions made as a result – pertaining to community benefit
- Community feedback
5. Make each report available to the public
6. HCPF is required to:
- Conduct stakeholder meetings to determine best practices to ensure diverse input from local community members
- Meaningfully engaged
- Best practices for hospitals to collaborate with local health agencies/community organiztions to reduce redundant community health needs
- Include tax exemption information in the annual report (This has already been done by HCPF but is now required. Additionally, analysis will be done by the Department of Revenue going forward.)
- Take remedial action if hospital fails to comply
- Require reporting hospital to submit corrective action plan within 120 days for approval by state department
- If a reporting hospital fails to submit corrective action plan (hospitals non-compliance), there is potential for weekly fines between $5,000 and $20,000 for each violation
HB 23-1243 Implementation Timeline
- Timeline is to be announced at a later date
2023 Report Template - effective June 14, 2023
HB19-1320: Hospital Community Benefit Accountability
HB23-1243: Hospital Community Benefit
Hospital Community Benefit Accountability Program Requirements
Hospital Community Benefit Accountability Rules
HCPF will send updates via email. Please sign-up for Hospital Community Benefits Updates. To complete the sign-up process, enter your contact information and select the Hospital Community Benefit box.
Reports
- 2023 Hospital Community Benefit Accountability Report
- 2022 Hospital Community Benefit Accountability Report
Back to: Hospital Reports Hub
- Reporting Hospitals
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Please visit the hospital website for their submitted Hospital Community Benefit Accountability Report, or you can email hcpf_hospitalcommunity@state.co.us to request a copy of the submitted report.
- Avista Adventist Hospital
- Boulder Community Hospital
- Castle Rock Adventist Hospital
- Children's Hospital Anschutz
- Community Hospital
- Delta County Memorial Hospital
- Denver Health Medical Center
- East Morgan County Hospital
- Fort Collins Medical Center
- Good Samaritan Medical Center
- Littleton Adventist Hospital
- Longmont United Hospital
- Lutheran Medical Center
- McKee Medical Center
- Mercy Regional Medical Center
- Montrose Memorial Hospital
- National Jewish Health
- North Colorado Medical Center
- Parker Adventist Hospital
- Parkview Medical Center
- Penrose-St. Francis Health Services
- Platte Valley Medical Center
- Porter Adventist Hospital
- Saint Joseph Hospital
- San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center
- St. Anthony Hospital
- St. Anthony North Health Campus
- St. Anthony Summit Medical Center
- St. Elizabeth Hospital
- St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center
- St. Mary's Regional Medical Center
- St. Thomas More Hospital
- St. Vincent General Hospital District
- Sterling Regional Medical Center
- UCHealth Broomfield Hospital
- UCHealth Grandview Hospital
- UCHealth Greeley Hospital
- UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital
- UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital
- UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies
- UCHealth Memorial Hospital
- UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital
- UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
- UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center
- Vail Health Hospital
- Valley View Hospital
Resources
Contacts to be invited to public meetings:
- Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, hcpf_hospitalcommunity@state.co.us
- Department of Public Health and Environment - Michele Shimomura, michele.shimomura@state.co.us
- Department of Human Services - Camille Harding, camille.harding@state.co.us
- Colorado Commission on Higher Education - TBD
- Office of Saving People Money on Health Care - Isabelle Nathanson, isabelle.nathanson@state.co.us
- Division of Insurance, Department of Regulatory Agencies - Kyla Hoskins, kyla.hoskins@state.co.us
Each Reporting Hospital shall invite, at a minimum, representatives from the following entities to participate in the meeting if any such entities operate in the hospital’s Community:
- Local public health agencies
- Local chambers of commerce and economic development organizations
- Local health care consumer organizations
- School districts
- County governments
- City and town governments
- Community Health Center
- Certified rural health clinics or primary care clinics located in a county that has been designated as a rural or frontier county
- Area Agencies on Aging
- Safety Net Clinics
- Health care consumer advocacy organizations
Updates
- Jun 8, 2022 - Web Portal and submission window
- Feb 7, 2022 - Summary report update
- Nov 2, 2021 - Report Posting Reminder
- Apr 27, 2021 - HCBA Update
- Mar 15, 2021 - Hospital Stakeholder meeting presentation
- Feb 25, 2021 - Hospital Stakeholder meeting
- Jan 22, 2021 - Legislative report