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JBC directs staff to draft change to move nursing provider fee into HAS enterprise to free TABOR space
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee voted March 7 to ask staff to draft legislation to include the nursing provider fee within the existing hospital provider fee enterprise, a move intended to preserve TABOR capacity and allow the state to draw additional federal matching dollars for nursing facility supplemental payments.
The Joint Budget Committee on March 7 approved staff authority to draft statutory changes that would move Colorado’s nursing facility provider fee into the existing Health Care Affordability and Sustainability (HAS) enterprise mechanism that already governs the hospital provider fee.
Staff explained the move would not create a new enterprise; rather, it would make the nursing provider fee subject to enterprise accounting, which removes that…
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