Modifying certain provisions governing the Minnesota comprehensive +health association; requiring health carriers offering individual coverage +to provide certain information to individuals losing group continuation coverage+ relating to coverage differences and eligibility for coverage from other +private sources or the comprehensive health insurance plan of MCHA for portability +and continuation purposes; increasing and modifying the membership of the+ board of directors; authorizing MCHA to provide an incentive for enrollee +participation in the chronic disease management and case management program; +eliminating the requirement for MCHA to offer an extended basic medicare supplement +plan after a certain date; authorizing health plan companies to offer, issue, +sell or renew high deductible health plans for use with existing health +savings accounts, defining high deductible health plans; exempting short term+ coverage from health care policy rate regulation; authorizing and providing +for health care purchasing alliances to provide coverage for seasonal employees,+ defining seasonal employee; authorizing health plan company electronic +transmission of data to enrollees under certain conditions; authorizing the board of +medical practice to conduct final interviews of applicants applying for +licensure to practice medicine by endorsement or reciprocity by teleconference; +requiring pharmacists to provide patients with certain prescription +information; providing for retroactive enrollment of an infant born to a woman +eligible for and receiving medical assistance (MA) the prepaid medical assistance +program to the month of birth in the same managed care plan as the mother upon +enrollment of the child, exception; modifying the effective date for a provision+ creating an exception to the hospital construction moratorium for certain +Itasca and Hennepin county projects involving the addition of beds to be used +for rehabilitation services; requiring the commissioner of commerce in +consultation with the association to contract with an independent entity to +conduct an analysis of the eligibility standards used for enrollment relating to+ the use of presumptive conditions for automatic eligibility and the +underwriting practices for the individual market relating to denial or coverage +limits due to preexisting conditions, specifying certain analysis requirements, +requiring a commissioner report of the results of the study and recommendations+ to the legislature by a certain date (Ch. 268, 2004)