The California Health and Human Services Agency shall research the options for developing a cost, quality, and equity data atlas. A comparative analysis of potential models used in other states and an assessment of the extent to which information in addition to the following should be included in the cost, quality, and equity data atlas: among other information, pricing information for health care items, services, and medical and surgical episodes of care gathered from allowed charges for covered health care items and services or, in the case of entities that do not use or produce individual claims, price information that is the best possible proxy to pricing information for health care items, services, and medical and surgical episodes of care available in lieu of actual cost data to allow for meaningful comparisons of provider prices and treatment costs.