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Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Colorado

 

Public Health Data Collection and Reporting in Colorado

Subtopic Statute/Regulation Description
Public Health Data Collection and Reporting C.R.S.A. § 10-16-111 Annual statements and reports-repeal Non-profit hospitals, medical-surgery, and health services corporations must file with the Commissioner, an...
C.R.S.A. § 10-16-133 Health carrier information disclosure- website-insurance producer disclosure requirements-legislative declaration In order to allow consumers to make...
C.R.S.A. § 10-16-134 Health care transparency-information required-website-definition Each carrier must submit by March 1, annually, to the Division of Insurance its...
C.R.S.A. § 25-3-705 Health care charge transparency-hospital charge report The Commissioner of Insurance must work with the Colorado Hospital Association to develop a...
C.R.S.A. § 25.5-6-202 Providers-nursing facility reimbursement-rules-repeal Medicaid certified class I nursing facilities must be reimbursed on a per diem basis for the...
C.R.S.A. § 6-20-101 Provider disclosure of average charge A hospital must inform a patient or person seeing treatment of the right to receive notice of the average...
Public health Registries Colorado Minimum Quality Standards for Public Health Services, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1014-9 Colorado Minimum Quality Standards for Public Health Services   Requires county and district public local health departments to conduct...
Department of public health and environment, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-2403 Department of public health and environment - powers and duties - immunization tracking system - definitions   Authorizes the Department of...
Prescription drug use monitoring program, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-42.5-403 Prescription drug use monitoring program - registration required - rules   Requires the Board of Pharmacy to establish an electronic...
Registry for the medical use of marijuana Colo. Code Regs. § 5-1006-2 (Regulation 1) Establishment and confidentiality of the registry for the medical use of marijuana   Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to...
Stroke advisory board - creation - membership, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-3-115 Stroke advisory board - creation - membership - duties - report - definition - repeal   Establishes the stroke advisory board with the...
The Colorado Central Cancer Registry, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-3 The Colorado Central Cancer Registry   Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to establish a cancer registry to collect,...
Confidentiality of reported data (Cross reference Privacy & Confidentiality) Confidentiality of information collected, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-1905 Confidentiality of information collected.    Classifies information obtained by the Department of Public Health and Environment for the...
Department of public health and environment, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-2403 Department of public health and environment - powers and duties - immunization tracking system - definitions   Authorizes the Department of...
Named reporting of certain diseases and conditions, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-1-122 Named reporting of certain diseases and conditions - access to medical records - confidentiality of reports and records   Grants the State Board...
Powers and duties of executive director, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-1003 Powers and duties of executive director - newborn screening programs - genetic counseling and education programs - rules   Grants the Executive...
Registry for the medical use of marijuana Colo. Code Regs. § 5-1006-2 (Regulation 1) Establishment and confidentiality of the registry for the medical use of marijuana   Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to...
Reports - confidentiality, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-406 Reports -- Confidentiality   Classifies public health reports regarding sexually transmitted diseases as confidential. Permits disclosure of...
Statewide emergency medical and trauma care system, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-3.5-704 Statewide emergency medical and trauma care system - development and implementation - duties of department - rules adopted by board   Requires...
The Colorado Central Cancer Registry, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-3 The Colorado Central Cancer Registry   Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to establish a cancer registry to collect,...
The Trauma Registry, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1015-4 (Chap 1) The Trauma Registry.    Establishes reporting requirements for the Colorado’s trauma registry. Defines the data elements that...
Trauma Facility Designation Criteria, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1015-4 (Chap 3 § 303) Trauma Facility Designation Criteria - Level I Facilities   Requires Level I trauma care facilities to establish prehospital care protocols and...
Trauma Facility Designation Criteria, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1015-4 (Chap 3 § 304) Trauma Facility Designation Criteria   Establishes criteria for designating Level II Trauma Facilities. These criteria address prehospital...
Public health reporting requirements Cooperation, Theft/Diversion and Central Registry, Colo. Code Regs. § 2-502-1 (21.320.9) Cooperation, Theft/Diversion, and Central Registry,   Requires Opioid Medication Assisted Treatment (OMAT) programs to participate in the...
Gulf war syndrome registry, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-1903 Gulf war syndrome registry - creation - reporting   Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to create a gulf war syndrome...
Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1011-1 (Chap 02 Part 9) Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting   Specifies the hospital-acquired infection data that health facilities must collect (e.g., orthopedic...
Medical Aid-In-Dying Medication Information, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-4 Reporting and Collecting Medical Aid-In-Dying Medication Information   Specifies the information that health care providers must report within...
Medical record documentation requirements, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-48-111 Medical record documentation requirements - reporting requirements - department compliance reviews - rules   Specifies the information that an...
Monitor health effects of marijuana, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-1.5-110 Monitor health effects of marijuana.    Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to monitor the health effects of marijuana...
Named reporting of certain diseases and conditions, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-1-122 Named reporting of certain diseases and conditions - access to medical records - confidentiality of reports and records   Grants the State Board...
Perinatal Services, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1011-1 (Chap 04 Part 20) Perinatal Services   Permits CMS certified hospitals to participate in an umbilical cord blood collection program. Requires these hospitals to...
Prescription drug use monitoring program, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-42.5-403 Prescription drug use monitoring program - registration required - rules   Requires the Board of Pharmacy to establish an electronic...
Treatment program for high-risk pregnant women, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25.5-5-311 Treatment program for high-risk pregnant women - data collection   Requires the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Communicable diseases/reportable diseases (as designated by each state) Epidemic and communicable diseases, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-1.5-102 Epidemic and communicable diseases - powers and duties of department - rules - definitions   Grants the Department of Public Health and...
Laboratory Reporting, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-1 (Regulation 3) Laboratory reporting,    Requires laboratories, outpatient clinics that perform laboratory testing, out-of-state laboratories that collect...
Powers and duties of executive director, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-2004 Powers and duties of executive director - hepatitis C program   Requires the Executive Director of the Department of Public Health and...
Reporting by Individuals, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-1 (Regulation 2) Reporting by individuals   Requires physicians, health care providers, and other people that have knowledge of a disease (e.g., coroners, school...
Tuberculosis to be reported, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-502 Tuberculosis to be reported.    Requires physicians and other persons that treat cases or suspected cases of tuberculosis to report these...
Violations of reporting requirements Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1011-1 (Chap 02 Part 9) Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting   Specifies the hospital-acquired infection data that health facilities must collect (e.g., orthopedic...
Screenings for conditions if the results are required to be reported Newborn heart defect screening, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-1004.3 Newborn heart defect screening - pulse oximetry - rules - definition   Requires birthing facilities below 7,000 ft of elevation to us pulse...
Newborn Screening Regulations, Colo. Code Regs. § 5-1005-4 Newborn Screening Regulations   Identifies that conditions that newborns must be screened for in Colorado (e.g., cystic fibrosis,...
Powers and duties of executive director, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-1003 Powers and duties of executive director - newborn screening programs - genetic counseling and education programs - rules   Grants the Executive...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Abortion No public funds for abortion, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25.5-3-106 No public funds for abortion - exception - definitions - repeal   Prohibits the use of public funds for abortions. Provides an exception for...
No public funds for abortion, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25.5-4-415 No public funds for abortion - exception - repeal   Prohibits the use of public funds for abortions. Provides an exception for reimbursement of...
Disease specific reporting requirements: STDs Penalties, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-414 Penalties.    Classifies the failure to report STD reports a petty offense punishable by a maximum $300 fine. Classifies a breach of the...
Reportable Diseases Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-1 (Regulation 1) Reportable Diseases   Requires the reporting of diseases listed in Appendix A of the regulation to the Department of Public Health and...
Reporting requirements, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-4-405 Reporting requirements - immunity   Requires health care providers, persons that test, treat, or diagnose STDs in institutions or clinics, and...
Trauma reporting requirements Statewide emergency medical and trauma care system, Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-3.5-704 Statewide emergency medical and trauma care system - development and implementation - duties of department - rules adopted by board   Requires...
The Trauma Registry, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1015-4 (Chap 1) The Trauma Registry.    Establishes reporting requirements for the Colorado’s trauma registry. Defines the data elements that...
Trauma Facility Designation Criteria, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1015-4 (Chap 3 § 303) Trauma Facility Designation Criteria - Level I Facilities   Requires Level I trauma care facilities to establish prehospital care protocols and...
Trauma Facility Designation Criteria, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1015-4 (Chap 3 § 304) Trauma Facility Designation Criteria   Establishes criteria for designating Level II Trauma Facilities. These criteria address prehospital...
Disease specific reporting requirements: Cancer The Colorado Central Cancer Registry, Colo. Code Regs. § 6-1009-3 The Colorado Central Cancer Registry   Requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to establish a cancer registry to collect,...