Richard Pan
- Democratic
Author
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally requires a health care service plan or health insurer in the individual, small group, or large group markets to file rate information with the appropriate department, but specifies alternative information to be filed by a health care service plan or health insurer that exclusively contracts with no more than 2 medical groups. Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) in the California Health and Human Services Agency to regulate health planning and research development. Existing law generally requires a health care facility to report specified data to OSHPD, but requires OSHPD to establish specific reporting provisions for a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans. Existing law authorizes hospitals to report specified financial and utilization data to OSHPD, and file cost data reports with OSHPD, on a group basis, and exempts hospitals authorized to report as a group from reporting revenue separately for each revenue center. This bill would eliminate alternative reporting requirements for a plan or insurer that exclusively contracts with no more than 2 medical groups or a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and would instead require those entities to report information consistent with any other health care service plan, health insurer, or health facility, as appropriate. The bill would also eliminate the authorization for hospitals to report specified financial and utilization data to OSHPD, and file cost data reports with OSHPD, on a group basis, but would authorize a health facility that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities under common management to report specified information for the group and not for each separately licensed health facility. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 247, Statutes of 2019.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2266.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 13. Page 2807.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (August 14).
Coauthors revised.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
July 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 946.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 749.) (April 22).
Set for hearing April 22.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 576.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 3.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB343 | HTML |
| 02/19/19 - Introduced | |
| 06/18/19 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/12/19 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/27/19 - Enrolled | |
| 09/05/19 - Chaptered |
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