This bill establishes a state operated health financing program.
This bill:
- establishes a state operated health financing program;
- creates the Utah Health Services Commission;
- establishes duties for the Utah Health Services Commission;
- moves health workforce councils and offices from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Utah Health Services Commission;
- directs the Department of Health and Human Services to begin transitioning the operation and management of the Medicaid program to the state operated health financing program;
- transitions the Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program into a state operated health financing program that is open to the public;
- allows all state residents to enroll in the state operated health financing program;
- prohibits billing by health care facilities;
- requires the state operated health financing program to begin billing on behalf of health care facilities;
- requires all government entities to transition government employees to the state operated health financing program;
- repeals certain unnecessary or obsolete programs; and
- creates a tax to fund the state operated health financing program.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 17-63-706, 26B-1-423, 26B-2-101, 26B-2-201, 26B-2-206, 26B-3-908, 31A-22-605.5, 31A-22-613.5, 31A-22-635, 31A-22-647, 31A-22-654, 31A-46-311, 49-21-105, 53-17-201, 58-1-112, 58-37-6.5, 63A-17-804, 63C-31-102, 63G-2-103, 63I-1-226, 63I-1-252, 63I-1-253, 63I-2-226, 63I-2-249, 63J-1-602.2, 63J-7-102, 64-13-30