Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1689

Relating to health

ARTICLE 1 - MEDICAL HOME

Requiring the commissioners of
human services and employee relations in consultation with the commissioner of
health to develop and administer a medical home pilot project for persons
enrolled in medical assistance (MA), MinnesotaCare, and general assistance
medical care (GAMC) and state employees to the extent permitted by federal
requirements; providing for payment methods and incentives; specifying
requirements for medical home designation; requiring the commissioners of human
services and employee relations to evaluate the effectiveness of pilot project
and prepare a report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money
to the commissioner of health for the medical education and research fund and to
work with institutions of higher education to establish or fund existing
initiatives to recruit and retain nurse educators on nursing education programs


ARTICLE 2 - UNIVERSAL COVERAGE

Requiring all health plan companies
participating in the individual market to offer and make available on a
guaranteed basis the qualified minimum coverage; increasing the age of
dependent; setting a date for universal health care coverage; requiring all
state residents to have health care coverage, requiring parents or legal
guardians to maintain coverage for children; requiring all health plan companies
to provide coverage; establishing the Minnesota health care access portal to
provide information and assistance to residents regarding the responsibility to
have health coverage and the options available; requiring the commissioner of
commerce to identify individuals without health coverage and provide information
about coverage requirements; specifying employers responsibilities; requiring
the commissioner of revenue in consultation with the commissioners of health and
commerce to develop and administer a method for collecting information on health
coverage through tax returns to determine coverage; requiring health care
providers and health plan companies to provide information to the health care
access portal; requiring all health plan companies to provide minimum health
coverage, specifying preventive services coverage, prescription drugs and cost
effective services provisions, setting a maximum deductible, an out of pocket
maximum benefit, lifetime maximum benefit and premium provisions; establishing
the Minnesota health care access portal, providing for a board of directors,
specifying general powers, providing an exemption from administrative
procedures, stating purpose of corporation, authorizing the corporation to
administer risk adjustment procedures, providing for combining of employer
contributions; providing for an excess health care cost credit; requiring the
commissioner of human services to present a report to the legislature by a
certain date modifying the MinnesotaCare system; requiring the commissioner of
commerce to convene a health plan risk adjustment task force to identify a risk
adjustment methodology; requiring the commissioner of commerce in cooperation
with the commissioners of health, human services, employee relations and revenue
to study and report to the legislature by a certain date on an implementation
plan; requiring the commissioner of health in cooperation with the commissioners
of commerce and human services to study and report to the legislature by a
certain date on the affordability of health plan premiums; requiring the
commissioner of commerce to study and report to the legislature by a certain
date on combing multiple employer contributions; requiring the commissioner of
commerce to study and report to the legislature by a certain date on variable
deductibles and copayments based on income; appropriating money to the
commissioners of health, commerce, human services, revenue and to the health
care access portal corporation; repealing certain provisions relating to group
accident and health coverage of full time students and health plan coverage
guarantees

ARTICLE 3 - PROTECTING AND PROMOTING HEALTH

Modifying certain
graduation and academic requirements relating to health and physical education;
requiring the commissioner of education to evaluate local school wellness
policies; requiring the commissioner of health to conduct a gap analysis of
public health infrastructure and inventory private sector capacity, requiring a
report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring commissioner of health to
administer grants and financial incentive programs to encourage communities to
implement urban and community planning designs to foster healthy lifestyles,
requiring a report to the governor and legislature by a certain date; requiring
commissioner of education to adopt rules regarding physical education standards
required for high school graduation; appropriating money to commissioner of
education for local school wellness


ARTICLE 4 - HEALTH INFORMATION


Requiring the commissioner of human services to develop policies for coverage
of and payment for additional telemedicine services; requiring the Minnesota
health care connection to build a statewide information exchange; requiring the
commissioner of human services to adopt pay for use programs offering financial
incentives to providers for the implementation and use of health care
information technology in clinical practice; appropriating money to the
commissioner of health for grants to health care providers in rural and
underserved communities for interoperable and transferable health information
systems and to the commissioner of human services for electronic health
information pay for use programs
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