Host Home for People with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) to establish and the department of public health and environment (CDPHE) to utilize risk criteria to identify certain service agencies to survey. The bill requires CDPHE to prioritize surveys at service agencies that have a higher risk rating based on the risk criteria established by HCPF. The bill requires HCPF to establish a statewide database containing information about host homes and their associated service agencies. The database must be made available and accessible by host home providers, service agencies, and CDPHE and must be made available for viewing by the public. The bill requires HCPF to make a complaint form publicly available on its website for use by the public and requires the website to allow a person to submit a complaint electronically. The bill requires HCPF to establish a process for tracking the status of each complaint filed and any records associated with that complaint.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)