This legislation requires health carriers to annually report primary care expenditures

This act creates the Arkansas Primary Care Payment Improvement Working Group. This working group will evaluate and provide recommendation to improve primary care delivery, payment systems and produce a report that provides a recommendation for a primary care spending target.

The bill establishes the New Mexico Health Care Authority in July 2024. Also amends the Primary Care Council’s duties to:
– Analyze the proportion of health care delivery expenditures allocated to primary care statewide annually.
– Develop a five-year plan to determine how primary care investment could increase access to primary care and improve the quality of primary care services while also lowering the costs of primary care delivery.
– Review national and state models of optimal primary care investment to increase access to and improve the quality of primary care services.

The bill modifies and repeals reporting provisions related to the Department of Health and Human Services. Specifically, it repeals the requirement to publish annually a report on primary care spending within Utah.

SB 563 affirmed requirements for reporting of the percentage of health care expenses by each contracted entity on primary care services and that no later than the fourth year of a contract with the Medicaid program must devote at least 11% to primary care.

Charges the North Carolina Primary Care Payment Reform Task Force with developing a definition of primary care that is applicable to the NC Medicaid program and commercial insurance, measuring how much insurance plans spend on primary care, determining the quality of the primary care delivery system in North Carolina, studying the primary care payment landscape in states that implement a minimum primary care spend, and collecting data to inform a primary care investment target for insurance plans.

This omnibus appropriations legislation would require a report on primary care spending and establish a Health Care Affordability Board that may consider establishing quality and primary care spending standards.

This 2022 California Health and Human Services Budget bill established the California Office of Health Care Affordability, required ongoing reporting, and established a process to set targets for primary care spend in the state.

This bill required the state Department of Health and Human Resources to contract with the Virginia Center for Health Innovation for actions necessary to facilitate and continue the work of the Virginia Task Force on Primary Care. The purpose of the task force is to enhance the financing, quality and delivery of primary care in the Commonwealth.

Requires Oklahoma state Medicaid managed care entitities to report on the percent of medical expenditures devoted to primary care.  Requires managed care entities to increase primary care expenditures to a minimum of 11% of medical expenditures within four years.