MA S735

Bill

Relative to structural health care oversight and reform

Introduced
01/22/2019

In Committee
06/25/2020

Crossed Over

Passed

Dead
12/31/2020

Introduced Session

191st General Court

Bill Summary

For legislation relative to structural health care oversight and reform. Health Care Financing.

AI Summary

This bill proposes several key provisions: 1. It establishes regional health policy councils to identify innovations and best practices in healthcare, shortages of resources, and interventions to improve population health at the regional or community level. 2. It creates a task force to recommend aligned measures of healthcare provider quality and health system performance for use in contracts, tiered network products, transparency efforts, and system-wide monitoring. 3. It requires the Health Policy Commission to establish an annual statewide readmissions reduction benchmark and permits the Commission to require certain provider organizations with excessive readmission rates to develop and implement readmissions performance improvement plans. 4. It makes various changes to the Health Policy Commission's authorities and responsibilities related to fostering innovation in reducing readmissions and improving behavioral health integration. 5. It requires insurers to use the aligned quality measure set established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in their contracts with providers and when assigning providers to tiers. 6. It establishes new trust funds to support mobile integrated health care programs, distressed community health centers, and hospital alignment and review activities. 7. It requires the Massachusetts eHealth Institute to prioritize digital health industry support and economic competitiveness. 8. It creates a voluntary certification program for "health care trailblazer" organizations demonstrating innovative, cost-effective, and scalable practices.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

Sponsors (1)

James Welch (D),

Last Action

Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means (on 06/25/2020)

Official Document

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S735

(17 Companion Bills)

Version:

Document Type	Source Location
State Bill Page	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S735
Bill	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S735.pdf

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