Colorado Revised Statutes Title 25.5. Health Care Policy and Financing § 25.5-3-301. Definitions

(1) “Comprehensive primary care” means the basic, entry-level health care provided by health-care practitioners or non-physician health-care practitioners that is generally provided in an outpatient setting. “Comprehensive primary care”, at a minimum, includes providing or arranging for the provision of the following services on a year-round basis: Primary health care; maternity care, including prenatal care; preventive, developmental, and diagnostic services for infants and children; adult preventive services; diagnostic laboratory and radiology services; emergency care for minor trauma; pharmaceutical services; and coordination and follow-up for hospital care. “Comprehensive primary care” may also include optional services based on a patient's needs. For the purposes of this subsection (1) and subsection (2) of this section, “arranging for the provision” means demonstrating established referral relationships with health-care providers for any of the comprehensive primary care services not directly provided by an entity. An entity in a rural area may be exempt from this requirement if it can demonstrate that there are no providers in the community to provide one or more of the comprehensive primary care services.

(2) “Qualified provider” means an entity that provides comprehensive primary care services and that:

(3) “Uninsured or medically indigent patient” means a patient receiving services from a qualified provider:

(a) Whose yearly family income is below two hundred percent of the federal poverty line; and

(a) Whose annual household income is at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty guideline; and