Bill > S2202

This bill aims to further health empowerment and affordability by leveraging transformative health care. Key provisions include: - Establishing regional health policy councils to identify innovations and best practices in health care, interventions that improve population health, and health care resource shortages. - Creating a task force to recommend aligned quality measures for use in provider contracts, tiered networks, consumer transparency, and system-wide performance monitoring. - Authorizing the Health Policy Commission to establish an annual readmissions reduction benchmark and require certain providers with excessive readmission rates to implement performance improvement plans. - Requiring carriers to use the aligned quality measure set established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in their provider contracts and tiered network designs. - Limiting facility fees charged by hospital-based facilities located off a hospital's campus. - Expanding the scope of practice for optometrists, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, and psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialists. - Requiring carriers to provide coverage for health care services delivered via telemedicine. - Establishing new trust funds to support mobile integrated health care programs and hospitals facing financial challenges. - Authorizing the creation of a dental therapy profession to improve access to dental care. The bill aims to drive innovation, improve quality, and contain costs across the health care system.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2202