H 1124 – Massachusetts

Status: Inactive / Dead
Year Introduced: 2019
Link: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H1124

Relative to health care performance improvement plans. The commission shall provide notice to all health care entities that have been identified by the center under section 18 of chapter 12C as exceeding the health care cost growth benchmark for any given year. Such notice shall state that the center may analyze the cost growth of individual health care entities and, beginning in calendar year 2016, the commission may require certain actions, as established in this section, from health care entities so identified. For calendar year 2015, if the commission finds, based on the center’s annual report, the commission’s annual cost trend hearings or any other pertinent information, that the average percentage change in cumulative total health care expenditures from 2013 to 2014 exceeded the average health care cost growth benchmark from 2013 to 2014, and in order to support the state’s efforts to meet future health care cost growth benchmarks, as established in section 9, the commission shall establish procedures to assist health care entities to improve efficiency and reduce cost growth by requiring certain health care entities to file and implement a performance improvement plan.


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