California Health Benefit Review Program: financial impacts.

Existing law requests the University of California to prepare a written analysis with relevant data on public health, medical, financial, and other impacts of legislation that proposes to mandate or repeal a mandated benefit or service, as specified. Existing law requests the University of California to provide the analysis to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, as specified. Existing law establishes the Health Care Benefits Fund in the State Treasury to effectively support the University of California and its work in implementing these provisions. This bill would additionally request the University of California to include in its analysis, as part of the financial impacts of that legislation, relevant data on the impact of coverage or repeal of coverage of the benefit or service on anticipated costs or savings estimated upon implementation for one subsequent calendar year, or, if applicable, 2 subsequent calendar years through a long-range estimate.