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AB 2817 – California
Status: Inactive / DeadYear Introduced: 2020
Link: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2817
Office of Health Care Quality and Affordability: Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacts various health care market reforms. Existing state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange), also known as Covered California, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required under PPACA. Until January 1, 2023, existing law requires the Exchange to administer a program to provide health care coverage financial assistance to California residents with household incomes at or below 600% of the federal poverty level.
This bill would create the Office of Health Care Quality and Affordability to analyze the health care market for cost trends and drivers of spending, develop data-informed policies for lowering health care costs, and create a strategy to control health care costs. The bill would require the office to be governed by a board with specified membership, and would require the board to hire an executive director to organize, administer, and manage the operations of the office. The bill would require health care entities to report specified data to the board, which the board would be required to keep confidential. Based on that data, the bill would require the board to annually establish statewide health care cost growth targets beginning in the 2022 calendar year and sector-based health care cost growth targets beginning in the 2023 calendar year.
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