Medical Payments Coverage Guide for Colorado Drivers

Colorado · MedPay pays medical bills, not the other driver

Medical payments is optional. It can pay medical and funeral expenses for you and your passengers after a crash, without a fight about fault. It is not liability, and it is not PIP.

Colorado’s auto floor is $25,000 per person and $50,000 per accident for bodily injury, and $15,000 for property damage. That liability pays other people when you are at fault. MedPay is a different line. It pays covered medical and funeral expenses for the people the endorsement names, usually you and passengers in your car, up to a dollar limit you bought. It does not wait on who caused the crash. It does not repair the car. It does not pay the other driver’s hospital bill. That is still liability, and only up to the limit. This page will not invent a typical MedPay dollar amount. The declarations print it.

Colorado is not a personal-injury-protection state. PIP, where another state uses it, is a broader no-fault medical benefit and sometimes a wage benefit. Do not assume a wage percent on a Colorado MedPay endorsement. MedPay is also not health insurance. Your health plan may still be involved, and this page will not invent which one pays first. Uninsured motorist is optional in Colorado and is a third choice. A rejection from another state does not fill it in here. Collision is a fourth choice. It pays the car, with its own deductible. None of these is required by the state on a paid-off car. A lender usually still wants collision and comprehensive.

The Colorado floor: how drivers stay legal. The MedPay pages: Colorado medical payments and, for the coverage idea on a Texas form, what MedPay is.

Read the MedPay limit as a dollar cap on medical bills, separate from 25/50/15. Ask an agent or get an auto quote.