CaliforniaCalifornia Health Care Quality and Affordability Act.
What it does
Existing law, the California Health Care Quality and Affordability Act, establishes within the Department of Health Care Access and Information the Office of Health Care Affordability to analyze the health care market for cost trends and drivers of spending, develop data-informed policies for lowering health care costs for consumers and purchasers, set and enforce cost targets, and create a state strategy for controlling the cost of health care and ensuring affordability for consumers and purchasers. Existing law requires the office to conduct ongoing research and evaluation on payers, fully integrated delivery systems, and providers to determine whether the definitions or other provisions of the act include those entities that significantly affect health care cost, quality, equity, and workforce stability. Existing law defines multiple terms relating to these provisions, including a health care entity to mean a payer, provider, or a fully integrated delivery system and a provider to mean specified entities delivering or furnishing health care services.
More detail
This bill would update the definitions applying to these provisions, including defining a provider to mean specified entities delivering or furnishing health care services. The bill would include additional definitions, including, but not limited to, a hedge fund to mean a pool of funds managed by investors for the purpose of earning a return on those funds, regardless of strategies used to manage the funds, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would require the office to conduct ongoing research and evaluation on management services organizations, as specified, and to establish requirements for management services organizations to submit data and other information as necessary to carry out the functions of the office.
Existing law requires a health care entity to provide the Office of Health Care Affordability with written notice of agreements or transactions that do specified actions, including sell or transfer, among other things, a material amount of its assets to one or more entities.
The bill would similarly require a noticing entity, as defined, to provide the office written notice of agreements or transactions between the noticing entity and a health care entity or management services organization, or an entity that owns, or controls the health care entity or management services organization that perform the same specified actions described above. The bill would additionally require a management services organization to provide the office with written notice of any agreement or transaction between the organization and any other entity.
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History
- 2025
- Oct 11Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 641, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 11Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 15Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 8Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 19. Page 3038.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 1415 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 4In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1415 Bonta et al. By Menjivar. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 4Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 2506.).Passed Senate
- Aug 25Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 21Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Aug 20Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 19From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.Minor
- Jul 2From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jun 27Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jun 26From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 25).Major
- Jun 25
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 18In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- May 28Referred to Com. on HEALTH.Minor
- May 15In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 1415 Bonta Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 15Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 16. Page 1547.)Passed Assembly
- May 8Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 7From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 7).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 28Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 24Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 23From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 22).Major
- Apr 22
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 3In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Mar 13Referred to Com. on HEALTH.Minor
- Feb 24Read first time.Minor
- Feb 22From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- Feb 21Introduced. To print.Introduced