The Legislature’s 350-page health care cost-control bill creates dozens of new programs and requirements.

Key provisions include:

■  Establishing annual health care cost growth benchmarks, equal to or slightly below the overall growth of the state’s economy.

■  Creating two semi-independent offices to collect and analyze cost information from insurers and providers, to ensure they are meeting benchmarks, and to work with them if their spending is excessive.

■  Assessing insurers and providers $225 million to help financially troubled community hospitals, ­improve public health, and help providers adopt electronic medical records.

■  Attempting to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits by creating a 182-day “cooling-off period” for settlement talks before a ­patient can sue and allowing providers to apologize for an error without having the admission be used against them in court.

■  Directing insurers to disclose out-of-pocket costs in advance of a patient obtaining medical care and posting provider prices on a state website to enable consumers to comparison shop.

■ Encouraging insurers to adopt budget-minded systems for paying providers, and providers to form large accountable care organizations to coordinate all of a patient’s medical care.