5689 AMH HCW H2512.1
SB 5689 - H COMM AMD 
By Committee on Health Care & Wellness
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  "The health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health shall continue to collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks while also developing individual agency plans to implement recommendations to reduce the incidence of diabetes in Washington, improve diabetes care, and control complications associated with diabetes, starting with medicaid programs and the healthier Washington plan.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  Following the report submitted pursuant to section 211(3), chapter 4, Laws of 2013 2nd sp. sess., the health care authority, department of social and health services, and department of health shall collectively submit a report to the governor and the legislature by December 31, 2018, and every fourth year thereafter, on the following:
(1) The financial impact and reach diabetes of all types is having on programs administered by each agency and individuals enrolled in those programs;
(2) An assessment of the benefits of implemented programs and activities aimed at controlling diabetes and preventing the disease;
(3) A description of the level of coordination existing between the agencies on activities, programmatic activities, and messaging on managing, treating, or preventing all forms of diabetes and its complications;
(4) A development or revision of detailed action plans for battling diabetes with a range of actionable items for consideration by the legislature. The plans must identify proposed action steps to reduce the impact of diabetes, prediabetes, and related diabetes complications, especially for medicaid populations; and
(5) An estimate of costs, return on investment, and resources required to implement the plan identified in subsection (4) of this section.
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  Sections 1 and 2 of this act constitute a new chapter in Title 70 RCW."
Correct the title.
EFFECT: Requires the Health Care Authority (HCA), the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), and the Department of Health (DOH) to implement recommendations to reduce the incidence of diabetes, improve diabetes care, and control diabetes complications. Requires that the implementation begin with Medicaid programs and the Healthier Washington Plan.
Requires the diabetes report submitted by the HCA, the DSHS, and the DOH to be submitted collectively. Requires the report to be submitted every four years beginning December 31, 2018, instead of every two years beginning December 31, 2017. Requires the report to include the return on investment of the diabetes action plans.
Removes the following information from the report: The number of lives with diabetes impacted or covered by agency programs, the number of lives with diabetes and family members impacted by agency prevention and diabetes control programs, the financial toll or impact diabetes and its complications places on the programs, the financial toll or impact diabetes and its complications places on the programs in comparison to other chronic diseases and conditions, the amount and source for any funding directed to the agencies for programs and activities aimed at reaching people with diabetes, expected outcomes of the action steps proposed in the following biennium, and benchmarks for controlling and preventing relevant forms of diabetes.
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