§ 1002

(a) On or before October 1, 2021, the council shall submit to the Legislature and Governor a plan with options that include a timeline of the benchmarks and steps necessary to implement health care delivery system changes, including steps necessary to achieve a unified financing system. The plan shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code. The plan shall also be posted on the California Health and Human Services Agency’s Internet Web site. The plan shall, at a minimum, consider all of the following:

(1) Key design options, including covered benefits, eligibility, service delivery, provider payments, and quality improvement.

(2) Requirements potentially necessary for the state, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, to seek federal waivers and federal statutory changes, by which funds currently managed by the federal government, but used on behalf of Californians, may be consolidated with other funding sources.

(3) A summary of relevant requirements under current law and potential state constitutional and statutory amendments that may be evaluated to improve the health care system.

(4) Options for financing and an analysis of the need for voter approval of any financing.

(5) Potential considerations for building or restructuring information technology systems and financial management systems necessary for health care system changes.

(6) Opportunities for controlling health care costs, including mitigating rising health care costs and limiting administrative costs so that more money is spent on direct care to patients and less on profits and overhead, in order to achieve a sustainable health care system with more equitable access to quality health care.

(b) The council shall provide an update detailing its progress in developing the plan required by subdivision (a) to the Governor and the health committees of the Senate and the Assembly on or before January 1, 2020, and shall update those committees every six months thereafter.

(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 34, Sec. 3. (AB 1810) Effective June 27, 2018. Repealed as of January 1, 2022, pursuant to Section 1005.)