Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1455

1E Relating to health care cost containment; modifying certain definitions
relating to expenditure reporting and defining specialty care; requiring
hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, diagnostic imaging centers and physician
clinics to report annually to the commissioner of health on all major spending
commitments, prescribing information to be included in report; modifying certain
exceptions relating to reporting requirements; modifying cost containment data
collected by health care providers; modifying certain billing procedures;
modifying the organization of the Minnesota uniform health care identification
card; modifying diagnostic imaging facilities and the providers of diagnostic
imaging services reporting requirements to the commissioner of health,
specifying report contents requirements; modifying the definition of diagnostic
imaging facilities and defining diagnostic imaging service; providing all
reports be open to public inspection; modifying contents of required yearly
reports to the commissioner of health
(me)