California 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Passed Assembly

AB 2830 — Health Care Payments Data Program.

Last action — Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Assembly
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Summary

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene) , provides for licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, regulates the collection and disclosure of personal information regarding individuals by state agencies, except as specified. Under existing law, a person who willfully requests or obtains a record containing personal information from an agency under false pretenses or a person who intentionally discloses medical, psychiatric, or psychological information held by an agency is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to establish the Health Care Cost Transparency Database to collect information on the cost of health care, and requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to convene a review committee to advise the office on the establishment and implementation of the database. Existing law requires, subject to appropriation, the office to establish, implement, and administer the database by July 1, 2023. Existing law requires certain health care entities, including a health care service plan, to provide specified information to the office for collection in the database. This bill would delete those provisions relative to the Health Care Cost Transparency Database and would instead require the office to establish the Health Care Payments Data Program to implement and administer the Health Care Payments Data System, which would include health care data submitted by health care service plans, health insurers, a city or county that offers self-insured or multiemployer-insured plans, and other specified mandatory and voluntary submitters. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health care and the Department of Insurance to take appropriate action to bring a plan or insurer into compliance if the office notifies the appropriate department of a plan or insurer's failure to submit required data, and would specify that the failure of a health care service plan to submit required data is a violation of Knox-Keene. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, and because a city or county that offers self-insured or multiemployer-insured plans would be required to submit health care data to the office, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the office to use the above-described data to produce publicly available information, including data products, summaries, analyses, studies, and other reports, to support goals that include improving public health, reducing disparities, and reducing health care costs. The bill would also require the office to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before March 1, 2024, that includes, among other things, claims data reported by mandatory and voluntary submitters. The bill would protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable data submitted to the system and would exempt it from disclosure, but would authorize controlled access to that nonpublic data by outside data analysts, researchers, and other qualified applicants if the data and requesters meet specified criteria. The bill would require a person accessing nonpublic data to sign a data use agreement subject to the penalties of the Information Practices Act of 1977. Because a willful violation of a data use agreement would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would authorize the office to establish pricing mechanisms for data products, custom reports, and the use of nonpublic data, and would require revenues from those activities to be deposited into the Health Care Payments Data Fund, for use by the office upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the office to establish a Health Care Payments Data Program advisory committee with specified membership to assist and advise the director of the office in formulating program policies regarding data collection, management, use, and access, and development of public information to meet the goals of the program. The bill would also require the office to establish a data release committee with specified membership to make recommendations about applications seeking either program data with direct personal identifiers or the transmission of standardized datasets, except for data requests from other state agencies. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  2. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  3. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 4832.)

  4. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  5. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  6. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 3).

  7. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  8. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. Read second time and amended.

  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 18).

  11. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  12. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.

  13. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  14. From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

  15. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Wood · Primary

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Sponsors (1)

  • Wood

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

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Votes

AB 2830 Wood Assembly Third Reading

Passed 64 Yea · 0 Nay · 15 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 410010
Democratic 22000
Republican 1005
Total 640015
% of votes cast 81%0%0%19%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Holden — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Smith — Yea
Weber — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Gray — Yea
Chau — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Cunningham — Not Voting
Quirk — Not Voting
Cooper — Not Voting
Voepel — Not Voting
Kiley — Not Voting
Mathis — Not Voting
Brough — Not Voting
Bigelow — Not Voting
Diep — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Low — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Daly — Yea
Burke — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Salas — Yea
Levine — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Medina — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Wood — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chu — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Ting — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Not Voting
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Not Voting
Choi, Steven S. Republican Not Voting
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting
Flora, Heath Republican Not Voting
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 14 Yea · 0 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 6000
Unaffiliated 8003
Republican 0001
Total 14004
% of votes cast 78%0%0%22%
How each member voted (18)
Member Party Vote
McCarty — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Diep — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Bigelow — Not Voting
Voepel — Not Voting
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 13 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 9001
Democratic 4000
Republican 0001
Total 13002
% of votes cast 87%0%0%13%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Mayes — Yea
Burke — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Wood — Yea
Bigelow — Not Voting
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Not Voting

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Subjects

healthcare health-insurance
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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2830 do?
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene) , provides for licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, regulates the collection and disclosure of personal information regarding individuals by state agencies, except as specified. Under existing law, a person who willfully requests or obtains a record containing personal information from an agency under false pretenses or a person who intentionally discloses medical, psychiatric, or psychological information held by an agency is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to establish the Health Care Cost Transparency Database to collect information on the cost of health care, and requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to convene a review committee to advise the office on the establishment and implementation of the database. Existing law requires, subject to appropriation, the office to establish, implement, and administer the database by July 1, 2023. Existing law requires certain health care entities, including a health care service plan, to provide specified information to the office for collection in the database. This bill would delete those provisions relative to the Health Care Cost Transparency Database and would instead require the office to establish the Health Care Payments Data Program to implement and administer the Health Care Payments Data System, which would include health care data submitted by health care service plans, health insurers, a city or county that offers self-insured or multiemployer-insured plans, and other specified mandatory and voluntary submitters. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health care and the Department of Insurance to take appropriate action to bring a plan or insurer into compliance if the office notifies the appropriate department of a plan or insurer's failure to submit required data, and would specify that the failure of a health care service plan to submit required data is a violation of Knox-Keene. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, and because a city or county that offers self-insured or multiemployer-insured plans would be required to submit health care data to the office, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the office to use the above-described data to produce publicly available information, including data products, summaries, analyses, studies, and other reports, to support goals that include improving public health, reducing disparities, and reducing health care costs. The bill would also require the office to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before March 1, 2024, that includes, among other things, claims data reported by mandatory and voluntary submitters. The bill would protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable data submitted to the system and would exempt it from disclosure, but would authorize controlled access to that nonpublic data by outside data analysts, researchers, and other qualified applicants if the data and requesters meet specified criteria. The bill would require a person accessing nonpublic data to sign a data use agreement subject to the penalties of the Information Practices Act of 1977. Because a willful violation of a data use agreement would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would authorize the office to establish pricing mechanisms for data products, custom reports, and the use of nonpublic data, and would require revenues from those activities to be deposited into the Health Care Payments Data Fund, for use by the office upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the office to establish a Health Care Payments Data Program advisory committee with specified membership to assist and advise the director of the office in formulating program policies regarding data collection, management, use, and access, and development of public information to meet the goals of the program. The bill would also require the office to establish a data release committee with specified membership to make recommendations about applications seeking either program data with direct personal identifiers or the transmission of standardized datasets, except for data requests from other state agencies. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Who sponsors AB 2830?
AB 2830 is sponsored by Wood.
What is the current status of AB 2830?
This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track AB 2830?
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