2024 COLORADO LEGISLATIVE SESSION CMS FIGHTS FOR YOU
1,822 advocacy messages
sent to legislators by Colorado physicians and practice staff.
38 positions taken
on bills by the CMS Council on Legislation and 62 bills monitored by staff.
14 meetings
of the Council on Legislation before and during the session.
CMS highlighted wins for you:
HB24-1472 Raise Damage Limit Tort Actions modernizes Colorado’s medical and general liability laws, maintains liability caps and preserves peer review, while avoiding a costly ballot fight. This bill was introduced and passed in the final week of the session in place of SB24-130. HB24-1149 Prior Authorization Requirements Alternatives, a three-year endeavor, results in a law empowering patients and physicians, extending prior auth approvals, increasing approval time frames for chronic medications, prohibiting denials requiring additional care during surgery, and mandating alternative programs for prior auth. HB24-1058 Protect Privacy of Biological Data is the first-in-the-world legislation that protects the privacy of individuals’ personal biological data. HB24-1171 Naturopathic Doctors Formulary was indefinitely postponed. CMS will continue to fight for patient safety and against inappropriate scope of practice expansion for naturopaths.