HB 229 Summary

• Establishes the Alaska Health Care Transformation Corporation as a public corporation within the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development to collect, analyze, and provide access to health care cost and quality data.

• Creates a 17-member voting council appointed by the governor representing health care providers, payers, policy makers, and consumer advocates, plus 4 nonvoting legislative and executive branch members.

• Requires the corporation to establish a statewide all-payer claims database that collects medical and pharmacy claims data from all payers while maintaining confidentiality and protecting individual privacy.

• Exempts corporation activities from state antitrust laws to encourage participation, though exemption does not apply to price-setting agreements among competing providers or carriers.

• Takes effect immediately; corporation must adopt regulations by June 30, 2021 for data collection procedures and by December 31, 2021 for selecting an organization to manage the database.