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First Regular Session | 75th General Assembly
Colorado General Assembly
HB17-1143

Audits of Medicaid Client Correspondence

Type Bill
Session 2017 Regular Session
Subjects
Health Care & Health Insurance

Concerning audits of correspondence sent to medicaid clients.

Bill Summary:

Interim Study Committee on Communication Between the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and Medicaid Clients. The bill directs the office of the state auditor (OSA) to conduct or cause to be conducted an audit of client correspondence, including letters and notices, sent to clients or potential clients in medicaid programs. The audits will be conducted in 2020 and 2023 and thereafter at the discretion of the state auditor.

Among other items set forth in the bill, the performance audits will review client correspondence for readability, understandability, and accuracy. In addition, the audits will review available county data regarding customer contacts relating to client confusion with client correspondence.

The OSA will report audit findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the legislative audit committee, the joint budget committee, the public health care and human services committee of the house of representatives, the health and human services committee of the senate, and the joint technology committee, or any successor committees.


(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Prime Sponsors

Representative Lois Landgraf

Representative

Lois Landgraf

Senator Larry Crowder

Senator

Larry Crowder

Committees

House

Public Health Care & Human Services

Senate

Health & Human Services

Status

Became Law

Introduced

Passed

Became Law

Related Documents & Information

Date Version Documents
03/20/2017 Signed Act PDF
03/14/2017 Final Act PDF
03/07/2017 Rerevised PDF
03/06/2017 Revised PDF
02/21/2017 Reengrossed PDF
02/17/2017 Engrossed PDF
02/01/2017 Introduced PDF
Date Version Documents
02/15/2017 PA1 PDF
Date Version Documents
08/01/2017 FN2 PDF
02/10/2017 FN1 PDF
Activity Vote Documents
Refer House Bill 17-1143 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. Vote summary
Hearing Summary
Activity Vote Documents
Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment B). The motion passed without objection. Vote summary
Refer House Bill 17-1143, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. Vote summary
Hearing Summary
Date Calendar Motion Vote Vote Document
03/07/2017 Third Reading BILL
35
AYE
0
NO
0
OTHER
 		Vote record
Date Calendar Motion Vote Vote Document
02/21/2017 Third Reading BILL
63
AYE
0
NO
2
OTHER
 		Vote record
Date Location Action
03/20/2017 Governor Governor Signed
03/14/2017 Governor Sent to the Governor
03/14/2017 Senate Signed by the President of the Senate
03/10/2017 House Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/07/2017 Senate Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
03/06/2017 Senate Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments
03/01/2017 Senate Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/22/2017 Senate Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services
02/21/2017 House House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
02/17/2017 House House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
02/14/2017 House House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/01/2017 House Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services
Effective Date Chapter # Title Documents
08/09/2017 67 Audits of Medicaid Client Correspondence PDF

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