BILL · 2013–14 SESSION · LATEST VERSION E2SHB 2572
HB 2572: Healthcare purchase, delivry
Concerning the effectiveness of health care purchasing and transforming the health care delivery system.
Summary
Requires the Health Care Authority (HCA) to award grants for two pilot projects for communities of health.
Requires the Department of Health to establish a health extension program to disseminate tools, training, and resources to providers.
Directs a stakeholder committee to identify and recommend standard statewide measures of health performance, and requires state agencies to use the measures to inform and set benchmarks for purchasing decisions.
Permits the HCA and the Department of Social and Health Services to restructure Medicaid procurement of health care services and agreements with managed care systems to better support integrated physical health, mental health, and chemical dependency treatment.
Establishes a statewide all-payer health care claims database, and requires claims data for Medicaid programs and the Public Employees Benefits Board program to be submitted to the database. Directs a lead organization selected by the Office of Financial Management to manage the database and prepare reports based on the claims data.
Requires the HCA to coordinate efforts to implement the State Health Care Innovation Plan (Innovation Plan) and to seek approval of the Joint Select Committee on Health Care Oversight (Joint Select Committee) prior to submitting a grant application for Innovation Plan funding. Establishes the Joint Select Committee in statute.
From the Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill Report (E2SHB 2572), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Enacted (partial veto)Enacted with partial veto · Chapter 223, Laws of 2014
AN ACT Relating to improving the effectiveness of health care purchasing and transforming the health care delivery system by advancing value-based purchasing, promoting community health, and providing greater integration of chronic illness care and needed social supports;