Bill Text: NJ A1273 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires SHBP and joint insurance funds to provide certain information to participating public employers.*

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-01-17 - Approved P.L.2013, c.189. [A1273 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A1273-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1273

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  CRAIG J. COUGHLIN

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman  JASON O'DONNELL

District 31 (Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires SHBP and joint insurance funds to provide certain information to participating public employers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended on September 9, 2013 by the General Assembly pursuant to the Governor's recommendations.

  

An Act concerning the State Health Benefits Program ¹and joint insurance funds¹ and supplementing P.L.1961, c.49 (C.52:14-17.25 et seq.) ¹and P.L.1983, c.337 (C.40A:10-36 et seq.)¹.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The State Health Benefits Program shall provide at no cost to the requestor, and not more than once in a 24-month period, complete claims experience data to a public employer other than the State that participates in the State Health Benefits Program and makes a written request for its claims experience information, including loss reports and large claims data.  The State Health Benefits Program shall provide the information in an electronic and manual format to the participating public employer who has made a written request for its information, within ¹[30] 60¹ days of the receipt of the written request made by the public employer.  ¹Notwithstanding the above, the State Health Benefits Program shall issue claims experience data only in a manner that complies with the privacy requirements of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L.104-191, and related regulations.¹

 

      ¹2    A joint insurance fund established pursuant to P.L.1983, c.372 (C.40A:10-36 et seq.) and subsection e. of section 1 of P.L.1979, c.230 (C.40A:10-6) for the purposes of providing health benefits or health insurance coverage shall provide at no cost to the requestor, and not more than once in a 24-month period, complete claims experience data to a public employer that participates in the joint insurance fund and makes a written request for its claims experience information, including loss reports and large claims data.  The joint insurance fund shall provide the information in an electronic and manual format to the participating public employer who has made a written request for its information, within 60 days of the receipt of the written request made by the public employer.  Notwithstanding the above, the joint insurance fund shall issue claims experience data only in a manner that complies with the privacy requirements of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L.104-191, and related regulations.¹

 

     ¹[2.] 3.¹     This act shall take effect immediately.