CO SB166

SB 25-166: Health-Care Workplace Violence Incentive Payments

• Adds workplace violence as a performance metric for hospital quality incentive payments under the Colorado Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Enterprise program

• Caps total quality incentive payments at no more than 7% of total hospital reimbursements from the previous state fiscal year

• Requires the State Department and Quality Incentives Payments Subcommittee to consult with stakeholders by September 1, 2025 to develop recommended workplace violence metrics, identify available federal or private funding, and develop legislative recommendations

• Beginning July 1, 2026, hospitals must adopt a formal workplace violence policy and submit required reports to the Department of Public Health and Environment to qualify for the workplace violence prevention component of quality incentive payments

• Hospitals with fewer than 100 beds are exempt from the reporting requirements