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Senate advances health-exchange parity bill amid contested debate over risk adjuster
Summary
House Bill 294, aiming to create price parity between Utah’s health-insurance exchange and the outside market and to expand risk-adjustment mechanisms, advanced after extended floor debate about premium impacts, data sharing and regulatory burden; final procedural placement was 20–5.
Salt Lake City — The Utah Senate advanced House Bill 294, a sweeping set of health-systems reform amendments intended to improve parity between the state’s insurance exchange and the broader market, require more price transparency and use risk-adjustment mechanisms to make the exchange viable for larger groups.
Sponsor Senator Niederhauser described the bill as corrective measures to problems identified after the exchange’s initial year. Provisions discussed on the floor…
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