AB 1091 (Wood, D-Healdsburg)
Oppose
Two-year bill
AB 1091 would give the attorney general the authority to approve, reject, or impose conditions on any transaction of assets or change in governance worth $15 million or more and that involve hospitals, health systems, health plans, health insurers, medical groups, or pharmacy benefit managers.
AB 1092 (Wood, D-Healdsburg)
Follow
Held in Senate Appropriations Committee on Sept. 1.
AB 1092 would require a health care service plan that intends to acquire or obtain control of an entity to give notice to and secure prior approval from the director of the Department of Managed Health Care. Recent amendments include reviewing transactions related to an affiliate of a health care service plan if the agreement or transaction will impact enrollees. An affiliate includes a hospital that offers a health plan.
SB 774 (Jones, R-Escondido)
Support
Two-year bill
SB 774 would prohibit the California attorney general from putting conditions on nonprofit hospital transactions (such as mergers and acquisitions). The conditions include those that would limit those hospitals from freely entering into contracts and negotiating rates, have an adverse financial or operational impact on the seller, or are different from the conditions that other similar corporations must comply with.