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The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research plays a major role in the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP), which was created by the California State Legislature to provide independent analysis of the medical, cost, and public health impacts of proposed health insurance benefit mandates.
Gerald F. Kominski, associate director of the Center, serves as the faculty lead for cost impact analysis of each proposed mandate. Center staff works closely with other CHBRP partners to produce estimates for the legislature of pre- and post-mandate levels of coverage, utilization, health insurance premiums, and out-of-pocket expenditures.
These mandates analyzed by CHBRP generally involve requirements for insurers to provide coverage for services not currently covered, limits to copayments for covered services, or changes to the scope of who is eligible to receive or eligible to deliver covered services.
A detailed description of how the Center works with Milliman, one of the other partners in CHBRP, to conduct cost impact analyses can be found in the June 2006 supplement to Health Services Research.
Established in 2002 and reauthorized in 2006, CHBRP conducts its analysis of a proposed mandate within a 60-day period before the Legislature begins formal consideration of a mandate bill.
CHBRP involves a collaborative effort between analytic staff in the University of California's Office of the President and a task force of faculty from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis, Loma Linda University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University as well as Milliman, a leading national actuarial consulting firm.
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