1. Colorado State University’s CORE heart evaluation: The CFT has worked with CSU to develop the portable CORE Program, which will provide this basic cardiovascular risk screening at your location for $115 plus actual travel expenses incurred. This will also help establish eligibility under the Firefighter Heart and Circulatory Malfunction Benefits Act (CRS Part 3 of Article 5, Title 29), which requires that both volunteer and career firefighters receive a heart screening medical exam after being hired but prior to a covered incident occurring in order to be eligible for benefits. We will continue to reimburse up to the accumulated balance of your fire agency. For more information, please see the following:
   • Firefighter Testing Program
   • Heart Disease Prevention Program
   • CORE Program
2. Boone Heart Imaging's Carotid IMT Ultrasound: Boone Heart Imaging offers their Carotid IMT Ultrasound to CFT members for $50. This exam gives size, location, type and the precentage of stenosis of plaque in the carotid arteries. They also give an "arterial age" based on the thickness of the lining. This exam is available at both their Greenwood Village and Fort Collins locations. For more information, please see the following:
   • Boone Heart Imaging website
   • Carotid-IMT Ultrasound Information
   • Additional Services
3. EPISEEK: Precision Epigenomic's EPISEEK testing is available for all firefighters, especially those with an elevated risk of cancer or individuals aged 45 or older. View additional information about this test on EPISEEK's informational onesheet.
4. Cancerguard: Cancerguard testing is available to members at $649 per firefighter, or $599 per firefighter if an agency can provide blood draw and healthcare provider to order Cancerguard test and communicate results and next steps to firefighter (patient). For more information, or to set up testing, please email Katie Papo at kpapo@exactsciences.com. 
5. 1st Responder Health Care 
6. Any other heart evaluation meeting the minimum assessment requirement. 

The grant was established to help departments obtain basic heart health testing and early cancer screening for all firefighters enrolled in the Colorado Firefighter Trust program and to ensure statutory eligibility if a heart or cancer incident occurs. The program is intended as a loss prevention measure to promote heart and cancer health issues to firefighters.

Unspent allocation funds may be accumulated for up to three years, after which they will expire and be forfeited back into the Trust’s general fund.

All Colorado Firefighter Trust enrolled firefighters, including part-time and volunteer firefighters, are eligible for grant allocations as long as they are eligible under the statute, have more than five years as applicable and are listed on the roster filed with the CFT. The applicant can apply for reimbursement up to the maximum Trust member allocation.

Fire department management should request the reimbursement, and it must be approved by a department’s representative to the Trust and by the Trust administrator.

If you are seeking reimbursement for cardiac testing, your department will need to include a completed Heart Disease Screening Confirmation form signed by a medical professional. Please ensure your firefighter brings this form when seeing a medical provider.

The Colorado Firefighter Trust Representative or Alternate Representative must provide approval via email. We will reach out to the department representatives to confirm after the request has been received.

You may include multiple participants on each application submitted. It is important to note that we still require one Heart Disease Screening Confirmation form for each firefighter on your application for reimbursement. If you have trouble uploading multiple documents, please email them to the Trust.

Our system will automatically send you a confirmation email after your online submission has been received. We will contact the department if additional information is required. It usually takes one to two weeks to get the reimbursement check processed and signed, and then it will be mailed directly to the fire department.