Medical billing task force.

Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to perform various functions and duties with respect to health facilities, health professions development, and health policy and planning. Existing law requires OSHPD to consult with the Insurance Commissioner, the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care, and others to adopt a California uniform billing form format for professional health care services and a California uniform billing form format for institutional provider services. Existing law requires OSHPD to adopt the California uniform billing form formats to be used in all health care payment programs it administers, including Medi-Cal. This bill would require OSHPD, in consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, to establish a medical billing task force on or before April 1, 2020. The bill would require the task force to, among other things, engage interested parties in the development of a system to improve the readability of medical bills and create a standard medical billing form. The bill would require OSHPD, on or before December 1, 2020, to submit a report to the Legislature on the task force's efforts.