The State-Wide Primary Care Access Authority must:
(1) determine what constitutes primary care services;
(2) inventory the state's existing primary care
infrastructure,
(3) by December 31, 2008, develop a universal system, which
maximizes federal financial participation in Medicaid and
Medicare, to provide primary care services, including
prescription drugs, to state residents; and
(4) by July 1, 2010, develop a plan for implementing the
system.
The inventory of the primary care infrastructure must
include:
(1) the number of state primary care providers,
(2) the amount of money spent on public and private primary
care services during the last fiscal year, and
(3) the number of public and private buildings or offices
used primarily for primary care services, including
hospitals, mental health facilities, dental offices,
school-based health clinics, community-based health centers
and academic health centers.
A "primary care provider" is any physician, dentist, nurse,
provider of services for the mentally ill or persons with
mental retardation, or any one else providing primary
medical, nursing, counseling, or other health care,
substance abuse or mental health service, including such
services associated with, or under contract to, a health
maintenance organization or medical services plan.
The Authority must:
(1) estimate the cost of fully implementing the universal
primary care services system it develops,
(2) identify any additional infrastructure or personnel
needed to implement it,
(3) determine the role of the state, private health
insurance, and third parties in the system; and
(4) identify funding sources.
The Authority's plan for implementing the system must
include:
(1) an implementation timetable,
(2) benchmarks to assess the state's progress in
implementing the system, and
(3) ways to measure the system's effectiveness.
See
Sec. 31 of PA 07-185
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