QUALITY-OF-CARE AND COST-EFFICIENCY BENCHMARKS AND GOALS; EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

(a) The executive commissioner shall develop quality-of-care and cost-efficiency benchmarks and measurable goals that a payment initiative must meet to ensure high-quality and cost-effective health care services and healthy outcomes.

(b) In addition to the benchmarks and goals described by Subsection (a), the executive commissioner may approve efficiency performance standards that may include the sharing of realized cost savings with physicians and other health care providers who provide health care services that exceed the standards. The standards may not create a financial incentive for or involve making a payment to a physician or other health care provider that directly or indirectly induces limiting medically necessary services.