2001 Minnesota Statutes

     62J.15 Health planning. 

    Subdivision 1.    Health technology advisory committee.  
 The legislative commission on health care access may convene or 
 authorize the commissioner of health to convene an advisory 
 committee to conduct evaluations of existing research and 
 technology assessments conducted by other entities of new and 
 existing health care technologies as designated by the 
 legislative commission on health care access, the commissioner, 
 or the advisory committee.  The advisory committee must include 
 at least one person representing physicians, at least one person 
 representing hospitals, and at least one person representing the 
 health care technology industry.  Health care technologies 
 include high-cost drugs, devices, procedures, or processes 
 applied to human health care, such as high-cost transplants and 
 expensive scanners and imagers.  The advisory committee is 
 governed by section 15.0575, except that members do not receive 
 per diem payments. 

    Subd. 1a.    Definition.  For purposes of sections 
 62J.15 to 62J.156, the terms "evaluate," "evaluation," and 
 "evaluating" mean the review or reviewing of research and 
 technology assessments conducted by other entities relating to 
 specific technologies and their specific use and application. 

    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1993 c 345 art 4 s 7 

    HIST: 1992 c 549 art 1 s 7; 1993 c 247 art 1 s 11; 1993 c 345 
 art 4 s 2,3; 1994 c 465 art 3 s 66; 1997 c 225 art 2 s 14; 2001 
 c 161 s 12