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Utah's Medicaid program delivers care to hundreds of thousands of residents through managed care organizations — private companies that contract with the state to coordinate and pay for health services. This bill would require the state's Division of Integrated Healthcare to build and maintain a publicly searchable online dashboard by the end of 2026, updated quarterly, showing how Medicaid dollars are spent across each managed care plan, including breakdowns by service type, provider type, prescription drug, and emergency room use, with historical data going back to January 2023. It would also require managed care organizations to submit to the state any reports or disclosures they file with the federal government, certify that submitted data is accurate, and limit their ability to withhold this information as confidential business information. Additionally, managed care organizations and their subcontractors would have to identify, document, and repay any "improper payments" — such as duplicate payments, payments unsupported by medical records, or payments to ineligible or deceased providers — on a quarterly basis, submit corrective action plans to fix the underlying causes, and have those reports posted publicly by the department, with companies terminated for noncompliance barred from rejoining the Medicaid program for five years.