CA SB1182

Health care service plans and health insurers must annually provide deidentified claims data at no charge to large group purchasers (employers with 1,000+ covered lives and 500+ enrolled, or multiemployer trusts with 500+ covered lives and 250+ enrolled) upon request.

Plans and insurers may not disclose contracted rates with providers to large group purchasers and must keep such rates confidential and exempt from public records disclosure.

Data disclosed to large group purchasers must comply with federal HIPAA, HITECH Act, and California privacy laws, and must be deidentified by a qualified statistician before release.

Information provided to large group purchasers is deemed confidential and exempt from the California Public Records Act, with the department prohibited from making it public.

Exempts health care service plans and insurers from restrictions on releasing employee health information when doing so for purposes of providing deidentified claims data to large group purchasers under these provisions.