Minnesota Administrative Rules

4685.1500 ENROLLEE OPINION.

The commissioner of health will review the proposed mechanism for affording enrollees an opportunity to express their opinions on matters of policy and operation to see if it reasonably provides such an opportunity. Permissible alternatives to those mechanisms described in Minnesota Statutes, section 62D.06, subdivision 2 may include but are not limited to one or more of the following:

A.

permitting enrollees to attend, after prior reasonable notice, and express their opinions at certain regular meetings of the governing body or special meetings called for the express purpose of affording enrollees an opportunity to express their opinions;

B.

creating a special committee of the governing body which will hold meetings on at least a quarterly basis and which will be open to all enrollees to express their opinions;

C.

designating a special administrative office within the health maintenance organization, responsible directly to the governing body, which will be open to enrollees to express their opinions on a regular basis;

D.

creating enrollee councils, representing enrolled groups and groups of individual enrollees which will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to meet with the governing body or its designee to express enrollee opinion; and

E.

such other mechanisms as the commissioner may authorize or approve.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 62D.20

Published Electronically:

October 11, 2007