Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.

A1222

ASSEMBLY, No. 1222

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission
to study financial impact of all enacted mandated health benefits.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act
concerning mandated health benefits and supplementing
P.L.2003, c.193 (C.17B:27D-1 et seq.).

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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a. The Mandated Health
Benefits Advisory Commission established pursuant to
P.L.2003, c.193 (C.17B:27D-1 et seq.)
shall
periodically, on an ongoing basis, analyze and review the financial impact of
all mandated health benefits enacted by the Legislature.

���� The analysis and review of
each mandated health benefit shall include:

���� (1)�� the impact of the
mandated health benefit on total costs to purchasers and benefit costs;

���� (2)�� the extent to which the
mandated health benefit has increased the appropriate use of the treatment or
service; and

���� (3)�� the extent to which the
mandated health benefit resulted in any savings to the health care system
through increased access to preventive care.

���� b.��� Two years after the
effective date of this act and every three years thereafter, the commission
shall report to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of
P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), on its findings and make any recommendations it
deems appropriate, including whether any of the mandated health benefits should
be repealed and offered, instead, as a rider to health benefits coverage;
however, the commission may issue to the Governor and Legislature such interim
reports on specific mandated health benefits as the commission deems
appropriate.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the 30th day following enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the
Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission, which was established pursuant to

P.L.2003, c.193 (C.17B:27D-1 et seq.),
to
periodically, on an ongoing basis, analyze and review the financial impact of
all mandated health benefits enacted by the Legislature.

���� The analysis and review of
each mandated health benefit shall include:

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the impact of
the mandated health benefit on total costs to purchasers and benefit costs;

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the extent to which the mandated health benefit has increased the
appropriate use of the treatment or service; and

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the extent to which the mandated health benefit resulted in any
savings to the health care system through increased access to preventive care.

���� The bill further provides
that:

���� ●� two years after the
effective date of the bill and every three years thereafter, the commission
shall issue reports to the Governor and the Legislature on its findings and
make any recommendations it deems appropriate, including whether any of the
mandated health benefits should be repealed and offered, instead, as a rider to
health benefits coverage; and

���� ●� the commission may
issue such interim reports to the Governor and Legislature on specific
mandates, as it deems appropriate.