AN ACT Relating to establishing a medicaid baseline health assessment and monitoring the medicaid population's health; and adding a new section to chapter 74.09 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 74.09 RCW to read as follows:

(1) All managed care contracts must incorporate accountability measures that monitor patient health and improved health outcomes, and must include an expectation that each patient receive a wellness examination that documents the baseline health status and allows for monitoring of health improvements and outcome measures.

(2) By December 1, 2015, and for each subsequent year the authority must report to the legislature the following:

(a) A narrative analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with implementing subsection (1) of this section;

(b) The number of medicaid clients enrolled over the previous year;

(c) The number of enrollees who received a baseline health status measurement over the previous year;

(d) An analysis of the medicaid population's health; and

(e) Recommendations for improving the medicaid population's health.

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