HF 1166

1st Engrossment - 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018) Posted on 03/08/2017 12:41pm

A bill for an act
relating to human services; requiring a comprehensive rate-setting analysis report.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin RATE-SETTING ANALYSIS REPORT.
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new text begin The commissioner of human services shall conduct a comprehensive analysis report of
the current rate-setting methodology for outpatient, professional, and physician services
that do not have a cost-based, federally mandated, or contracted rate. The report shall include
recommendations for changes to the existing fee schedule that utilizes the Resource-Based
Relative Value System (RBRVS), and alternate payment methodologies for services that
do not have relative values, to simplify the fee for service medical assistance rate structure
and to improve consistency and transparency. In developing the report, the commissioner
shall consult with outside experts in Medicaid financing. The commissioner shall provide
a report on the analysis to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative
committees with jurisdiction over health and human services finance by November 1, 2019.
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