2ESHB 1508 — Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board.

What this bill does

Directs the Health Care Cost Transparency Board (Transparency Board) to conduct an annual survey of underinsurance among Washington residents and a study of how state tax preferences affect the calculation of total health care expenditures. Authorizes the Transparency Board to require that payers or health care providers that frequently exceed the health care cost growth benchmark without a reasonable justification submit a performance improvement plan or pay a civil fine.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 6, 2023
  57 yea · 38 nay · 3 not voting
• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 6, 2024
  94 yea · 3 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 28, 2024
  45 yea · 2 nay · 2 not voting

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