LD 120 – Maine

Status: Enacted
Year Introduced: 2021
Link: http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=120&snum=130

An Act To Lower Health Care Costs through the Establishment of the Office of Affordable Health Care. establishes the Office of Affordable Health Care for the purpose of analyzing health care costs in the state. Duties include: analyzing health care cost growth trends and correlation to the quality of health care; analyzing health care spending trends by consumer categories, payer type, provider categories or any other measurement that presents available data in a manner that may assist the legislative oversight committee in understanding health care cost drivers, health care quality and utilization trends, consumer experience with the health care system or any other aspect of the health care system; monitoring the adoption of alternative payment methods that foster innovative health care delivery and payment models to reduce health care cost growth and improve the quality of health care; and developing proposals for consideration by the legislative oversight committee.


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