Establishing the primary care collaborative. Establishes the Primary Care Collaborative to make findings and recommendations regarding statewide spending on primary care. The Collaborative must develop recommendations and report its findings to the Legislature
by December 1, 2020. The recommendations must address: how to define primary care for purposes of determining spending by public and private payers as a proportion of overall health care spending;
barriers to the access and use of data needed to determine current and desired levels of primary care spending; desired levels of primary care spending in Washington; how to annually determine whether desired levels of primary care spending are being achieved;
methods to incentivize the desired levels of primary care spending;
practices and methods of reimbursement to achieve and sustain desired levels of primary care spending; state laws and regulations that could be eliminated to reduce health care costs in Washington; and the ongoing role of the collaborative in guiding and overseeing the development and application of primary care spending targets.