Help build Colorado’s workers’ compensation opioid-contract record

Colorado’s identified Contract-for-Care requirement applies in the workers’ compensation chronic-pain framework, where covered long-term opioid management uses an opioid contract/shared-decision agreement. Seeds of Vice is collecting actual Colorado workers’ compensation and practice agreements so the program rule can be separated from private-clinic policy.

What is most useful

• A blank opioid contract, shared-decision agreement, or chronic-pain agreement used in a Colorado workers’ compensation case.
• The complete packet if the agreement came with drug-testing, pill-count, refill, pharmacy, cannabis/alcohol, taper, return-to-work, dismissal, or functional-goal policies.
• The revision date, footer, clinic name, authorized treating provider, workers’ compensation carrier, and document number.
• Older versions of the same agreement so guideline changes can be tracked.
• Written notices showing how an alleged agreement violation, abnormal test, taper, discontinuation, denial of treatment, or referral was handled.
• Private Colorado pain-practice agreements, clearly identified as non-workers’ compensation when applicable, so local policy can be distinguished from state program requirements.

Protect patient and claim information

A blank form is best. On a completed copy, permanently redact the patient’s name, birth date, address, contact information, signatures, claim number, employer, insurer identifiers, medical-record numbers, individualized diagnoses and prescriptions, test results, barcodes or QR codes, and other personal or claim-specific information before submission.

How the document is classified

Each clause is compared with the DWC Chronic Pain Disorder Medical Treatment Guideline, workers’ compensation opioid-management rules, statewide PDMP law, and Colorado’s general chronic-pain statute. Workers’ compensation requirements are separated from private clinic terms and from statewide duties that apply outside workers’ compensation.

Submit

Use the national Seeds of Vice submission channel and identify the document as a Colorado Contract for Care / workers’ compensation opioid agreement.

Open the Contract for Care submission page

Colorado evidence library

Return to the Colorado Contract-for-Care Evidence Library

A submitted document becomes an evidence lead. It is verified, dated, and classified before being promoted into the public Colorado record.