2006 Minnesota Statutes

62N.26 SHARED SERVICES COOPERATIVE.
The commissioner of health shall establish, or assist in establishing, a shared services
cooperative organized under chapter 308A to make available administrative and legal services,
technical assistance, provider contracting and billing services, and other services to those
community integrated service networks that choose to participate in the cooperative. The
commissioner shall provide, to the extent funds are appropriated, start-up loans sufficient
to maintain the shared services cooperative until its operations can be maintained by fees
and contributions. The cooperative must not be staffed, administered, or supervised by the
commissioner of health. The cooperative shall make use of existing resources that are already
available in the community, to the extent possible.
History: 1994 c 625 art 1 s 7; 1997 c 225 art 2 s 35