The first of at least four State Health Plan-focused bills has cleared a legislative chamber.
Senate Bill 159 was approved by a 45-1 vote in the Senate on Thursday and has been sent to the House. A companion House Bill 177 has cleared one House committee.
The key element of the bill would increase the threshold from $500,000 to $5 million that a contract with the State Health Plan must reach before it requires approval by its board of trustees.
SB159 also would permit the SHP to allow parents of a child who is disabled to remain on their coverage past their 26th birthday. Verification of the child s disability would have to be provided to the SHP within 60 days of the child turning age 26.
have obviously identified a situation in all likelihood something unusual even for us. so now we need to go very quickly into the mode of what needs to happen, how do we mobilize resources, what needs to happen now, what do i need to be thinking about for six hours and eight hours from now? one of the initial thoughts, sense we were well-resourced at this time when this came in, we had both evening shift and the night shift both there. so we were we had good resources at the time. but you have to think, is this really an event that s going to last maybe 8, 12 hours or more? what resources are we going to need to replace ones that are dealing with the incident right now? you need to think of those type of things. i can focus on the task at hand, not so much how is this happening, is it really happening, not again. dr. colwell, thank you so much for joining us. the first responder is just one part of the heroic story playing out in colorado.
losing his life or at least predictably, somebody could get a bad infection or something but at this moment is each of the seven expected to live? yes, they are. each of the ones we have here at denver health are expected to live. right, you never know, because the injuries, some of them were very serious and they could get infections or other things down the road but they are expected to live and we are very fortunate for that. dr. colwell. where were you when the call came in? were you in the hospital or called in from home or what did you do? no, this time i was asleep in bed. they called just a little before one in the morning to let me know what was going on and what the situation was. and then part of my job is to help mobilize resource so we are prepared for anything that we might face. dr. colwell, you were also, as i understand it, a treating physician or one who participated in helping the injured in columbine, is that right? that is correct.