On February 19th the Utah House of Representatives approved three bills that were presented by the Healthy Reform Task Force. These Bills are now headed to the Senate for approval and if passed will go to the Governor for his signature or veto.
The Three Bill
- Health reform, Administrative Simplification: This bills goal is to simplify the coordination of benefits, standardize health care cards and create a broad based demonstrative project between provides and payers to help improve the payment and delivery of health care in Utah.
- Health System Reform: This bill would allow insurers to offer lower cost health insurance products that do not include certain state mandates. It will also create the Utah NetCare Plan, a low cost health benefit plan as an alternative to current federal COBRA and defines contribution arrangement market to be available on the internet portal. This bill would also re-authorize the Health Reform Task Force for one year.
- Health Reform, Health Insurance Coverage in State Contracts: This bill would require several state departments and government agencies to require a contractor who contracts with them to offer qualified health insurance coverage to the contractor’s eligible employee’s and the employee’s dependents if the contract or subcontract amount is above $500,000.
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