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SB 25-152

Health-Care Practitioner Identification Requirements

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Lisa Feret and 7 co-sponsors

Requires health-care practitioners to clearly disclose their state-issued license/registration at first contact, on wearers, and in advertising.

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Bill Summary · SB 25-152

SB 25‑152 — Health‑Care Practitioner Identification Requirements

Short title: Know Your Health‑Care Practitioner Act
Status: Governor signed (May 5, 2025). Effective: August 6, 2025 (applies to actions on or after that date). Introduced: Feb 5, 2025.

Purpose / Intent

To increase point‑of‑service transparency about the state‑issued credentials of health‑care practitioners so patients can more readily understand who is providing care and avoid misleading advertising.

Key provisions

  • Expands the Medical Transparency Act to require practitioners named in that Act to disclose their state‑issued license, certificate, or registration in three ways:
    • Verbal disclosure: At the first encounter (when establishing a practitioner‑patient relationship), the practitioner must verbally state their specific state‑issued license, certificate, or registration (or an authorized statutory abbreviation), unless emergent or clinically infeasible.
    • Worn identification: Practitioners must wear an identification name tag or similar visible display that affirmatively shows the specific state‑issued license, certificate, or registration. The name tag requirement applies only to practitioners providing services in specified facility types (general hospitals licensed/certified by CDPHE, urgent care centers, ambulatory surgical centers, and freestanding emergency departments). Compliance with Joint Commission (or substantially similar) facility ID policies satisfies this requirement.
    • Advertising: Any advertisement (including business cards, letterhead, brochures, signage, email, internet advertising, audio/video) that names a practitioner must identify the type of state‑issued license, certificate, or registration and must not be deceptive or misleading. Supplemental descriptors or titles are allowed only if the statutorily required credential is also clearly identified and any descriptor accurately reflects scope/specialization.
  • Exemptions:
    • Practitioners working in non‑patient‑care settings or with no direct patient interactions.
    • Situations where disclosure is not clinically feasible.
    • Safety exceptions allowing a practitioner to conceal/omit their name when wearing identification would jeopardize safety or when treating violent/irrational patients.
  • Enforcement and remedies:
    • No private right of action is created by the statute.
    • The Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) may enforce violations; fines for violations of these new requirements are capped at $500. (DORA retains broader enforcement authority under the Medical Transparency Act for other violations.)

Who is affected

Practitioners covered are those already listed under the Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act — e.g., physicians and physician assistants; nurses; dentists, dental hygienists; pharmacists; physical, occupational, respiratory, and speech therapists; mental‑health professionals; chiropractors; midwives; optometrists; audiologists; podiatrists; surgical assistants/technologists; athletic trainers; hearing aid providers; and related licensed/certified/registered professions.

Fiscal impact / implementation

  • Legislative Council (nonpartisan) projects minimal state revenue and expenditures; no appropriation required.
  • DORA provided alternate estimates assuming increased complaint volume: at a 5% increase estimated ~$60,687 and 0.7 FTE (and a ~$0.18 per‑license renewal fee impact), or at 10% increase ~$291,265 and 1.4 FTE (and ~$0.84 fee impact). The final fiscal note adopted the Legislative Council’s conclusion of minimal statewide fiscal impact.

Legislative action & sponsors

  • Introduced in Senate Feb 5, 2025; passed both chambers in April 2025; signed by Governor May 5, 2025.
  • Sponsors/cosponsors include Senators Frizell and Michaelson Jenet and Representatives Garcia Sander and Feret (along with additional cosponsors listed in the enrolled bill).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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