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(1) The authority shall not accept or expend any federal funds 1 received under a medicaid transformation waiver under healthier 2 Washington except as described in subsections (2), (3), and (4) of 3 this section until specifically approved and appropriated by the 4 legislature. To ensure compliance with legislative directive budget 5 requirements and terms and conditions of the waiver, the authority 6 shall implement the waiver and reporting requirements with oversight 7 from the office of financial management. The legislature finds that 8 appropriate management of the innovation waiver requires better 9 analytic capability, transparency, consistency, timeliness, accuracy, 10 and lack of redundancy with other established measures and that the 11 patient must be considered first and foremost in the implementation 12 and execution of the demonstration waiver. In order to effectuate 13 these goals, the authority shall: (a) Require the Dr. Robert Bree 14 collaborative and the health technology assessment program to reduce 15 the administrative burden upon providers by only requiring 16 performance measures that are nonduplicative of other nationally 17 established measures. The joint select committee on health care 18 oversight will evaluate the measures chosen by the collaborative and 19 the health technology assessment program for effectiveness and 20 appropriateness; (b) develop a patient satisfaction survey with the 21 goal to gather information about whether it was beneficial for the 22 patient to use the center of excellence location in exchange for 23 additional out-of-pocket savings; (c) ensure patients and health care 24 providers have significant input into the implementation of the 25 demonstration waiver, in order to ensure improved patient health 26 outcomes; and (d) in cooperation with the department of social and 27 health services, consult with and provide notification of work on 28 applications for federal waivers, including details on waiver 29 duration, financial implications, and potential future impacts on the 30 state budget, to the joint select committee on health care oversight 31 prior to submitting waivers for federal approval. The authority shall 32 submit an application to the centers for medicaid and medicare 33 services to extend the duration of the medicaid transformation waiver 34 under healthier Washington as described in subsections (2), (3), and 35 (4) of this section by one year. If not extended, by federal 36 standard, the medicaid transformation demonstration waiver shall not 37 exceed the duration originally granted by the centers for medicare 38 and medicaid services and any programs created or funded by this 39 waiver do not create an entitlement. The demonstration period for the 40 p. 954 ESSB 5187.SL