Save Our Safety Net

Protect Infrastructure and Access to Health Care

2025 Legislation:

In 2025, the Colorado General Assembly passed Senate Bill 25-290 that:

Preserves access to essential safety net health care for Coloradans with immediate support for a broad cross-section of safety net health care providers
Creates short-term mitigation for infrastructure losses while long-term solutions can be developed
Establishes a new Provider Stabilization Fund to provide payments to providers based on the volume of care provided to low-income uninsured Coloradans

What You Need to Know:

In 2023 and 2024, nearly 575,000 Coloradans lost access to health care through Medicaid, following the unwind of the COVID public health emergency. This has a significant impact on hospitals and other health care providers, as more patients are uninsured and unable to pay for care that is provided.

How Hospitals and Health Care Partners Are Helping

To support SB 25-290, CHA and its member hospitals and health systems pledged to contribute and fundraise $40 million for the first two years of the Provider Stabilization Fund. As of March 5, 2026, the coalition has raised $23.9 million in contributions from 23 donors – nearly 60% of a total commitment to be raised by July 1, 2027. These funds will be added to $90 million of state funds allocated through SB 25-290.

Awards to eligible safety net providers are now being distributed by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, with $38.8 million in funds going to 56 grantees across the state.