Provider Stabilization Fund Fact Page
What is the Provider Stabilization Fund?
Senate Bill 25-290, signed on May 28, 2025, created the Provider Stabilization Fund. The purpose of SB25-290 is to provide stabilization payments to safety net providers who provide services to low-income, uninsured individuals on a sliding-fee schedule or at no cost. Provider stabilization payments will be distributed to eligible safety net providers based on the proportion of low-income, uninsured individuals that an individual provider serves in comparison to the total number of low-income, uninsured individuals served by all eligible safety net providers.The monies in this fund are allocated to eligible safety net providers who meet specific qualifications.
What is a Safety Net Provider?
As defined in SB25-290, section 25.3-602, a Safety Net Provider is:
(a) A comprehensive community behavioral health provider, as defined in section 27-50-101 (11);
(b) a rural health clinic, as defined in 42 u.s.c. sec. 1395x (aa)(2);
(c) a federally qualified health center, as defined in 42 u.s.c. sec. 1395x (aa)(4); or
(d) a health-care provider that is delivering primary care services and at least fifty percent of whose client caseload is individuals who are enrolled in medicaid, medicare, or the children's basic health plan or who are low-income, uninsured individuals, or any combination of such enrollees or low-income, uninsured individuals.
How are awards determined?
Awards are allocated based on the number of low income, uninsured patients served by one safety net provider, relative to the total number of low income, uninsured patients served by all safety net providers who qualify the Provider Stabilization Fund.