Health-Care Workplace Violence Incentive Payments

The bill includes a performance metric related to workplace violence in determining quality incentive payments made to hospitals.

No later than September 1, 2025, the bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to convene a stakeholder group and the quality incentives payments subcommittee of the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise board (board) to consult with a group of named stakeholders to develop recommended workplace violence metrics, determine whether any federal or private funds are available to assist hospitals in lowering the number of incidents of workplace violence and develop legislative recommendations which the stakeholder group must submit to the general assembly no later than February 1, 2026 . The bill requires the state department to include a progress report on developing workplace violence metrics during its 2026 "SMART Act" hearing. The bill requires the board to include legislative recommendations it develops as part of its January 2027 report to the general assembly, the governor, and the medical services board.

Beginning July 1, 2026, and each July thereafter, the bill requires the state department to assess whether each hospital has adopted a formal policy to address workplace violence and submitted the reporting requirements to the department of public health and environment for the next federal fiscal year. The bill exempts hospitals with fewer than 100 beds from the reporting requirements.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

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