Health Care. Consumer Protection. Initiative Statute. Official Title and Summary prepared by the Attorney General

• Prohibits health care businesses from: discouraging health care professionals from informing patients or advocating for treatment; offering incentives for withholding care; refusing services recommended by licensed caregiver without examination by business's own professional.
• Requires health care businesses to: make tax returns and other financial information public; disclose certain financial information to consumers including administrative costs; establish criteria for authorizing or denying payment for care; provide for minimum safe and adequate staffing of health care facilities.
• Authorizes public/private enforcement actions. Provides penalties for repeated violations. Defines ''health insurer."

• Increased state and local government costs for existing health care programs and benefits, probably in the range of tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars annually, depending on several factors.

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