2002 House Bill 6327 ↩

Senate Roll Call 968: Passed

To revise the annual deadlines for a required Office of Financial and Insurance Services report on whether or not competition exists throughout the worker's compensation insurance market; and replace a provision which defines competition as existing when no one company controls more than 15 percent of the worker’s comp market, with a standard which simply requires that "a reasonable" degree of competition exists. The bill would also increase from five percent to six percent the “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) fee on HMOs. The program imposes a "bed tax" on HMOs, which allows the state to collect an even greater amount of federal Medicaid revenue, much of which goes to the HMOs, resulting in a net gain. For more details on the MMQAA see Senate Bills 1101 and 748, and House Bills 5103, 4373, and 4057.