Physical rehabilitation services - copayments and coinsurance - research

(1) The Colorado commission on affordable health care created in section 25-46-103, C.R.S., shall conduct a study concerning the costs, including patient cost sharing for physical rehabilitation services. The study shall analyze costs to the health-care system, including payers and individual patients, as well as whether patient cost sharing creates barriers to the effective use of physical rehabilitation services.

(2) On or before November 1, 2015, the commission shall report its findings to the health and human services committee of the senate and the public health care and human services committee and the health, insurance, and environment committee of the house of representatives.

(3) For the purposes of this section, physical rehabilitation services means physical therapy, occupational therapy, or chiropractic services for the treatment of a person who has sustained an illness, medical condition, or injury, with the goal of returning the person to his or her prior skill and function level or maintaining the person's current skill and function level.