Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1641

1E Changing best practices guidelines to evidence based health care guidelines
for health care cost containment purposes and prescribing certain criteria for
the guidelines, requiring the commissioner of health to collaborate with a state
nonprofit quality improvement organization specializing in producing and using
guidelines for guidelines identification purposes, requiring identification and
promotion of the guidelines by a certain date; providing for measurement and
reporting of performance of medical groups, hospitals and other health care
providers in providing care according to the guidelines, specifying certain
duties of the commissioner; requiring the commissioner in consultation with the
commissioners of finance and administration to submit recommendations to the
legislature by a certain date to establish a quality improvement investment
program to provide technical assistance, grants and low interest loans to health
care organizations and health professional associations to support establishing
or updating electronic information systems for efficient and effective health
care services delivery and administrative costs reduction purposes
(ra, ja)