If this is where you are…
If the medicine, the care, or the bill leaves you with a concern, keep the documents together. Then choose the official route that matches the question.
A concern about professional care or a licence
Colorado’s Division of Professions and Occupations accepts complaints about doctors, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and pharmacies.[a]
It sits within the Department of Regulatory Agencies, often called DORA.[b]
The state shares what you submit with the person or business you name in the complaint.[a]
Read Colorado’s licensing complaint processThe boards can change a person’s licence status, affecting whether they may keep practising, according to complaint guidance checked in September 2026.[a]
They cannot settle a bill, award money for harm, or impose a criminal penalty.[a]
A concern about an ad, a charge, or a scam
Colorado’s Attorney General accepts consumer complaints about deceptive ads, billing, refunds, and scams.[c]
The office’s complaint guidance says it cannot be your lawyer or handle your own case for you, as checked in September 2026.[c]
Open the Colorado consumer complaint pageKeep the ad, product label, receipts, written terms, and messages that relate to the concern.
A concern about a medicine
MedWatch is a free service where patients can report medicine problems to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[d]
A report lets the FDA know about a problem, but does not by itself establish that the medicine caused that problem.[e]
Read the FDA’s MedWatch reporting pageMedlinePlus calls for emergency care or a call to 911 when allergic symptoms are severe.[f]
MedlinePlus is a health-information service from the National Institutes of Health.[f]
A complaint or report is not an emergency-care route.