2021 Minnesota Statutes

62J.63 CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE PURCHASING IMPROVEMENT.

Subdivision 1.Support for state health care purchasing and performance measurement.

The commissioner of health shall support the state in its efforts to be a more prudent and efficient purchaser of quality health care services, aid the state in developing and using more common strategies and approaches for health care performance measurement and health care purchasing, promote greater transparency of health care costs and quality and greater accountability for health care results and improvement, and identify barriers to more efficient, effective, quality health care and options for overcoming the barriers.

Subd. 2. Duties; scope.

The commissioner of health may:

(1) require reports or surveys to evaluate the performance of current health care purchasing or administrative simplification strategies;

(2) calculate fiscal impacts, including net savings and return on investment, of health care purchasing strategies and initiatives;

(3) support the Administrative Uniformity Committee under sections 62J.50 and 62J.536 and other relevant groups or activities to advance agreement on health care administrative process streamlining;

(4) contact and participate with other relevant health care task forces, study activities, and similar efforts with regard to health care performance measurement and performance-based purchasing; and

(5) assist in seeking external funding through appropriate grants or other funding opportunities and may administer grants and externally funded projects.

Subd. 3.

MS 2020 [Repealed, 1Sp2021 c 7 art 3 s 47]

History:

2006 c 282 art 14 s 10; 2007 c 148 art 2 s 83; 2009 c 157 art 1 s 17; 1Sp2021 c 7 art 3 s 6,7