2.2-2504 - Duties of the Commission. - Virginia Statutes

§ 2.2-2504. Duties of the Commission.

The Special Advisory Commission shall:

1. Develop and maintain, with the Bureau of Insurance, a system and programof data collection to assess the impact of mandated benefits and providers,including costs to employers and insurers, impact of treatment, cost savingsin the health care system, number of providers and other data as may beappropriate.

2. Advise and assist the Bureau of Insurance on matters relating to mandatedinsurance benefits and provider regulations.

3. Prescribe the format, content, and timing of information to be submittedto it in its assessment of proposed and existing mandated benefits andproviders. Such format, content, and timing requirements shall be bindingupon all parties submitting information to the Commission in its assessmentof proposed and existing mandated benefits and providers.

4. Provide assessments of proposed and existing mandated benefits andproviders and other studies of mandated benefits and provider issues asrequested by the General Assembly.

5. Provide additional information and recommendations, relating to any systemof mandated health insurance benefits and providers, to the Governor and theGeneral Assembly upon request.

6. Report annually on its activities to the joint standing committees of theGeneral Assembly having jurisdiction over insurance by December 1 of eachyear.

7. Review and evaluate as necessary the benefits and other provisions of theessential and standard health benefits plans established pursuant to §38.2-3431, and submit to the State Corporation Commission, for adoption inthe State Corporation Commission's applicable regulations pursuant to §38.2-3431, any modifications needed to maintain or enhance the affordabilityand marketability of the plans.

(1990, cc. 618, 634, § 9-298; 1997, c. 415; 2001, c. 844.)