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OK SB411

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/15/2011

Primary Sponsor

Lewis Moore

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Origin

Senate

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Directs the Oklahoma Insurance Department, in collaboration with the State Department of Health, to establish and maintain a comprehensive health care information system published on a website showing approximate pricing information for health care services and pharmaceuticals from different providers.

  • Requires the system to serve as a resource for insurers, employers, providers, and state agencies to review health care utilization, expenditures, and performance, while enabling consumers and employers to make informed and cost-effective health care choices.

  • Prohibits the system from including direct personal identifiers (names, addresses, email, phone numbers, social security numbers) and requires a memorandum of understanding between the Insurance Department and State Department of Health covering data sets, limited use procedures, legal compliance, and implementation timeline.

  • Mandates the Insurance Commissioner and State Board of Health to promulgate rules necessary for implementation and requires comparative considerations regarding geography, demographics, economic factors, and institutional size when presenting data.

  • Requires health benefit plans to provide comparable coverage for diagnostic and surgical treatment of temporomandibular joint conditions if medically necessary due to accident, trauma, congenital defect, developmental defect, or pathology, effective November 1, 2011.

Legislative Description

Health care; directing the Insurance Department to establish a comprehensive health care information system. Codification. Effective date.

Health Care

Last Action

CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Insurance Committee

3/28/2011

Committee Referrals

Insurance3/16/2011
Appropriations Health and Human Services Sub2/23/2011
Appropriations2/22/2011
Retirement and Insurance2/8/2011

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