To increase health care institution ownership transparency by requiring private equity firms that purchase or make large investments in health care institutions in the state to disclose certain financial information prior to such purchase or investment.
To require a study of the costs and benefits of transitioning from the current health care system in the state to a universal, single payer health care system.
An Act eliminating the certificate of need program. To improve access to and reduce the costs of health care.
An Act concerning medicaid coverage of biomarker testing. To improve treatments for cancer and other conditions and diseases by approving Medicaid coverage for biomarker testing.
To establish that the requirements for licensure, certification or registration of telehealth providers include out-of-state telehealth providers who are Medicaid-enrolled providers or in-network providers for commercially, fully insured health insurance providing telehealth services to patients.
To (1) prohibit certain health carriers from requiring the use of step therapy for drugs prescribed to treat behavioral health conditions or chronic, disabling or life-threatening conditions or diseases; (2) redefine "clinical peer" for the purposes of adverse determination and utilization reviews; (3) require health carriers to bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary; and (4) require health carriers to provide certain clinical peers with authority to reverse initial adverse determinations.
