Budget Amendment ID: FY2014-S3-520

EHS 520

Affordable Care Act Cost Compliance

Messrs. Tarr, Knapik and Ross moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after section __, the following new section:-

Section ___.  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the executive office of health and human services, in collaboration with the commonwealth health insurance connector and the center for health information and analysis, shall, in increments of time not greater than six months, and for a period of not less than three years following the passage of this act, develop analyses of the cost impacts to the citizens, policyholders, employers, patients and state and municipal governments of the commonwealth of compliance with the federal Affordable Care Act. Such analyses shall include but not be limited to such factors as insurance premiums, copayments and deductibles, and the costs associated with compliance and reporting.

Such analyses shall be reported, together with any recommendations to reduce, mitigate or eliminate such cost impacts, with the clerks of the house and senate and the joint committee on health care financing, and shall be made available to the general public by electronic posting so as to provide convenient and searchable access to such analyses.