AB 648 Summary

• Prohibits health care service plans, insurers, and employers from sharing personal information collected through wellness programs or taking adverse actions against enrollees, members, insureds, or employees who decline to participate.

• Requires health care service plans, insurers, and employers to post written explanations of wellness program policies and practices on their websites and limit collection of personal information to only what is reasonably necessary to operate the program.

• Grants individuals rights to obtain copies of their wellness program records and challenge the accuracy of personal information collected about them.

• Allows retention and sharing of deidentified and aggregated wellness program data for bona fide research on health care utilization and outcomes.

• Exempts wellness programs for licensed health care professionals administered by professional associations and establishes an infraction penalty for employer violations, with administrative penalties of $2,500 to $100,000 for insurer violations.