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StateScape Legislative and Regulatory Tracking Services Statement of Work 01/05/2022

Performance Requirements: Legislative and Regulatory Tracking Services The contractor will provide analyst-filtered legislative and regulatory tracking for all 50 states and D.C. This tracking entails a process of filtering, categorizing, and then monitoring legislation, regulations, and Department of Insurance bulletins and press releases that are relevant to CMS from proposal through final resolution. The contractor will utilize experienced research analysts who sift through bills, drafts, agendas, amendments, proposed regulations, bulletins, and press releases to find those proposals that have potential to impact CMS. This will include analyst-filtered legislative tracking, analyst-filtered regulatory tracking (register), and analyst-filtered regulatory tracking (state departments of insurance). This tracking shall cover the following subject areas: Affordable Care Act implementation, state individual mandates, association health plans, health savings accounts/medical savings accounts/health reimbursement arrangements, personal mandates, all payer claims database and cost transparency, balance billing, coverage mandates, cross border sales, discounts and surcharges, short term medical, and uninsured.

Analyst-Filtered Legislative Tracking The contractor will provide CMS access to the following features with respect to the documents identified through the analyst-filtered legislative tracking.

· Custom Group Notes: Add comments, analysis, tags, or other information to legislative records and share them with your team.

· Personal Notes: Similar to Group Notes, but this function allows you to keep the information you add to a legislative record private.

· Email Alerts: Subscribe to alerts on individual bills or whole subject categories, delivered straight to your inbox.

· Email-It Tool: With the click of a button, send a pre-formatted email containing full bill text to a client or colleague.

· Compliance Alerts: Receive email alerts for newly enacted bills only.

· Bill Version Compare: Read side-by-side marked up versions of amended vs. current bill text to see how it’s changed over time.

· Hearing Dates Filter: Filter the bills in your tracking database by upcoming hearing dates.

· Highlighter: Highlight important terms in a bill to zero-in on the parts that matter most.

· Legislative Timeline: Watch a bills progress from introduction through enactment by following an easy-to-read automated timeline.

· Legislative History: View the full history of a bill as it moves through the legislative process in chronological, or reverse-chronological order.

· Sponsor Information: Get up-to-date contact information for a bills sponsor, as well as their committee assignments and rank.

· State Backdrop: View a comprehensive snapshot of a state’s session information including start and adjournment dates, filing deadlines, who’s in leadership, and more.

· Bill Text Links: Always view the most current version of a bill and its supporting documents by direct hyperlink to the states website; updated in real-time.

· Customized Banner: Incorporate your organization’s logo within the tracking platform to give it a customized look for your staff, members, or clients.

· Report Formatting: Generate reports in a variety of formats including HTML, Word, Excel, and an interactive heat map for a more visually engaging display of the bills you’re tracking.

· Quick Links Tool: Easily save your customized reports to view later on, or share them with colleagues and clients.

· Personal Lists: Flag your own subset of bills contained within a report. This is especially useful for larger organizations with multiple users that have different areas of focus.

Analyst-Filtered Regulatory Tracking The contractor will provide CMS access to the following features with respect to the documents identified through the analyst filtered regulatory tracking.

· Custom Group Notes: Add comments, analysis, tags, or other information to regulatory records and share them with your team.

· Personal Notes: Similar to Group Notes, but this function allows you to keep the information you add to a regulatory record private.

· Email Alerts: Subscribe to alerts on individual regulations or whole subject categories, delivered straight to your inbox.

· Email-It Tool: With the click of a button, send a pre-formatted email containing full regulatory text to a client or colleague.

· Compliance Alerts: Receive email alerts for newly adopted regulations only.

· Searchable Hearing Dates & Comment Deadlines: Prioritize your work by filtering reports based on upcoming hearings and comment deadlines.

· Regulatory Document Links: Access subject specific regulatory notices published in a state register or on an agencies website. Our analyst staff saves you time by providing the exact page number to reference within the document.

· Customized Banner: Incorporate your organization’s logo within the tracking platform to give it a customized look for your staff, members, or clients.

· Report Formatting: Generate reports in a variety of formats including HTML, Word, Excel, and an interactive heat map for a more visually engaging display of the bills you’re tracking.

· Quick Links Tool: Easily save your customized reports to view later on, or share them with colleagues and clients.

· Personal Lists: Flag your own subset of regulations contained within a report. This is especially useful for larger organizations with multiple users that have different areas of focus.

Period of Performance:

We are requesting that the Base Period be exercised for a new period of performance from April 28, 2022 – April 27, 2023. Option Year 1: April 28, 2023 – April 26, 2024; Option Year 2: April 27, 2024 – April 25, 2025; Option Year 3: April 26, 2025 – April 25, 2026; Option Year 4: April 26, 2026 – April 25, 2027.

Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR):

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