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In recent years, Delaware has acted to improve healthcare quality and bend the healthcare cost growth curve by:
To further help bend the healthcare cost growth curve, in 2019, Senate Bill 116 of the 150th Delaware General Assembly directed the DOI to create the Office of Value Based Health Care Delivery to “reduce health-care costs by increasing the availability of high quality, cost-efficient health insurance products with stable, predictable, and affordable rates.” SB 116 charged the Office with three tasks:
By October 2021, Delaware’s Legislature passed Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 120 and Governor Carney signed it into law. This legislation recognizes the benefits of effective primary care and aims to make it more accessible to all Delawareans. It is based on findings and Affordability Standards outlined in the Office’s inaugural report below. In 2021 the Office updated its report and published an Annual Review of Carrier Progress Towards Meeting Affordability Standards to provide a baseline with which to measure future progress. The report reinforces the need for the new law, and highlights opportunities for meaningful progress that will improve the physical, mental, and financial health of Delawareans.
Effective May 11, 2022, the Department will implement SS1 for SB120 through Regulation 1322 Requirements for Mandatory Minimum Payment Innovations in Health Insurance.
The proposed regulation was published in the January 1, 2022 edition of the Register of Regulations and the Final Implementation Order was published in the May 1, 2022 edition of the Register of Regulations.
(see also the Department’s Proposed/Adopted Regulations & General Notices webpage for access to the regulation).
Additional reports prepared by the Office on primary care investment and health care affordability in Delaware can be found below:
“Investing in Primary Care: Lessons from State-Based Efforts” is a national scan of state actions to increase primary care investment. The report, published in April 2022, features Delaware as an emerging national leader in this important work. The scan was released as part of Primary Care Matters , a new resource center developed by California Health Care Foundation.
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