Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3322

4E Relating to human services; improving management of state health care
programs; providing for the classification of data provided to the commissioner
of human services by managed care plans; modifying managed care contract
provisions to include the attainment of performance targets; limiting managed
care administrative expenses; providing for the treatment of investment
earnings; requiring administrative expense reporting; requiring the reporting of
provider payment rates; requiring counties electing to purchase medical
assistance (MA) and general assistance medical care (GAMC) to satisfy the
commissioner of health of the requirements for assurance of fiscal solvency
applicable to health maintenance organizations, requiring the commissioner to
collect from county-based purchasing plans certain fees; providing for the
expenditure of revenues; requiring managed care plans to demonstrate submitted
data regarding attainment of performance targets accuracy; requiring the
commissioner to continue to use single-health plan, county-based purchasing
arrangements for medical assistance and general assistance medical care programs
and products for counties in single-health plan, county-based purchasing
arrangements, clarifying applicability; requiring the commissioner of human
services to report to the legislature on the financial management of health care
programs; requiring the commissioner of health to report to the legislature by a
certain date on certain health plan and county based purchasing requirements;
requiring the commissioner of human services to report to the legislature by a
certain date on the expansion of the duties of the ombudsman for managed care;
requiring the commissioner of human services in cooperation with the
commissioner of health to report by a certain date on recommendations on the
adoption of a single method to compute and publicly report managed health care
performance measures; requiring the commissioner of human services to explore
the feasibility of using or coordinating with the credentialing collaborative
among payers, providers and hospitals in order to streamline the provider
enrollment process for Minnesota health care programs, legislative report
requirement; increasing the health maintenance organization renewal fee;
appropriating money to the commissioners of health and human services for
implementation, studies and reporting
(Ch. 364, 2008)