Health Care Accountability Ordinance Minimum Standards Review

A review of the minimum standards in relation to the current health care insurance market in California.

HCAO Minimum Standards Review

The San Francisco Health Commission has the sole authority to set the Minimum Standards that employers subject to HCAO must meet or exceed. The Ordinance requires a review of the standards at least once every two years. For the review process, DPH convenes a workgroup of stakeholders representative of non-profit and for-profit employers, labor advocates, health insurance brokers, and city departments to develop recommendations for revising the Minimum Standards. 

Documents

HCAO Reports - Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards

Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2023 and 2024
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2021 and 2022
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2019 and 2020
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2017 and 2018
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2015 and 2016
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2013 and 2014
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2011 and 2012
Health Care Accountability Ordinance – Suggested Revisions to the Minimum Standards for 2008 to 2011

Resources

Health Care Accountability Ordinance

Most City contractors and tenants (including at the Airport and the Port) must offer health plan benefits to their covered employees, make payment to the Department of Public Health, or, under limited circumstances, make payments directly to their covered employees.

Request Public Records

Submit requests for the Department of Public Health.