Simplifying the regulation of health insurers and health maintenance organizations; modifying health plan maternity care coverage requirements and the limit on premium rates for individual health plans issued after exhaustion of continuation coverage; eliminating certain copayment and deductible limits under health maintenance contracts, authorizing a lifetime maximum benefit limit; providing an assumption for certain accredited HMOs relating to meeting certain requirements; modifying the requirement for health insurers and fraternal benefit societies under the Minnesota comprehensive health association (MCHA) to offer major medical coverage to new applicants; accelerating the sunset of health care regional coordinating boards and the consumer advisory board; simplifying certain commissioner of health research data collection procedures; authorizing utilization review by certain providers other than physicians; eliminating certain community integrated service network exemptions from requirements applicable to HMOs; encouraging HMOs and CISNs to work with local public health agencies to achieve public health goals; restricting the application of certain allied independent health provider expanded network requirements of health plan companies; authorizing health plan company product variety; requiring the commissioners of health and commerce to jointly convene an informal study group to study the effects of cost containment goals and health plan premium regulation, specifying certain study requirements and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; repealing the requirement for the commissioner of administration to establish and administer a nongovernmental pharmaceutical contracting alliance, certain requirements for HMOs and medical care vendors to participate in the medical assistance (MA), general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare programs, certain reporting requirements, certain health plan company action and local public accountability and collaboration plan requirements, the requirement for health plan companies to establish an informal complaint resolution process and the expedited fact finding and dispute resolution processes established by the commissioners of health and commerce(ra)