All Hospitals and Health Facilities Legislation - Minnesota
SF1739 - Grieving Parents Act
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Chief author stricken Bonoff Bill Text "Grieving Parents Act"; requiring hospitals, clinics and medical facilities having custody of a fetus following a miscarriage to provide written notification to the mother of the right to arrange for the burial or cremation of the fetus; providing for election of disposition; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to notification and election forms (je) Comment on Bill SF2501 - Worthington regional hospital employees privatized PERA benefits
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Including the Worthington regional hospital in privatized public employee retirement (PERA) coverage (je) Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Taxes Bill Text 1E Authorizing establishment of the White community hospital district in St. Louis county by resolution of the prospective governing bodies of the cities of Aurora, Biwabik and Hoyt Lakes and the towns of Biwabik, White and Colvin; specifying certain district powers and duties and providing for for annexation and detachment, unorganized areas membership authority and hospital district board membership; authorizing the hospital district to levy property taxes (me) SF0994 - Sales tax exemption for bioscience research facility building materials, supplies and equipment
Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Exempting building materials, supplies and equipment used for the improvement and expansion of bioscience research facilities under a collaboration agreement with the Mayo clinic and an independent research unit of the university of Minnesota from the sales tax (me) SF1691 - Nursing and intermediate care facilities and community services providers medical assistance payment rate increases; income tax rate modifications; long term payment rate account
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to human services; providing a medical assistance (MA) rate increase for nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions (ICF/MR) and certain home and community based waivered services providers; modifying the income tax rate schedule; providing for inflation adjustment of the brackets; creating the long term care payment rate account; appropriating money to commissioner of human services from the long term care payment rate account to fund long term care provider rate increases (je) SF2891 - Health plan companies and hospitals contract disclosure requirement
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the submission from each health plan company to the commissioner of health a copy of all contracts entered into during the previous year between the health plan company and licensed hospitals (me) SF3185 - Residential hospice facilities group residential housing payments eligibility
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Extending group residential housing payment eligibility to residential hospice facilities (rt) SF3554 - Blue Earth united hospital district supplemental retirement plan exception
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Allowing an exception to the prohibition on public tax money contribution to supplemental retirement plans (deferred compensation) for united hospital district, Blue Earth under certain conditions (rt) SF1565 - School immunization disclosures requirements for enrollment in postsecondary schools
Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to health; requiring school immunization disclosures of permitted exemptions from immunization for postsecondary schools enrollment purposes; specifying certain written information requirements by immunization providers prior to immunizing; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to immunizations (je) SF3352 - Winnebago adolescent treatment center facility grant bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for a grant to the united hospital district to design, construct, furnish and equip a new adolescent treatment center facility in Winnebago (ra) SF0034 - Hennepin and Ramsey counties group residential housing rate modification
Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E Modifying group residential housing rates for certain facilities serving chemically dependant males in Hennepin and Ramsey counties (me) SF2431 - Ah Gwah Ching regional treatment center campus demolition bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for the demolition of buildings and infrastructure and the redevelopment and reuse of the Ah Gwah Ching regional treatment center campus (me) Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Authorizing the Cass county board of directors to establish a hospital district; providing for operation of the district; providing for a hospital district board; providing for a tax levy (ra) SF1868 - Pine Island bioscience research park and integrated medicine facility utility upgrade and extension grant appropriation
Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for a grant to the Pine Island economic development authority to upgrade and extend facilities to serve Elk Run bioscience research park and the Falls healthy living by nature medicine facility (me) SF3248 - Pine Island bioscience research park and integrated medicine facility utility upgrade and extension grant appropriation
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for a grant to the Pine Island economic development authority to upgrade and extend facilities to serve Elk Run bioscience research park and the Falls healthy living by nature medicine facility (rt) Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight Bill Text SF1455 - Health care facilities major spending commitments reporting requirements; nonprofit hospitals and outpatient surgical centers community benefits report requirements
Latest Action: 04/27/2007 - Author added Saltzman Bill Text 1E Relating to health care cost containment; modifying certain definitions relating to expenditure reporting and defining specialty care; requiring hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, diagnostic imaging centers and physician clinics to report annually to the commissioner of health on all major spending commitments, prescribing information to be included in report; modifying certain exceptions relating to reporting requirements; modifying cost containment data collected by health care providers; modifying certain billing procedures; modifying the organization of the Minnesota uniform health care identification card; modifying diagnostic imaging facilities and the providers of diagnostic imaging services reporting requirements to the commissioner of health, specifying report contents requirements; modifying the definition of diagnostic imaging facilities and defining diagnostic imaging service; providing all reports [...] show full description SF3187 - Sales tax exemption for health care facilities pollution control machinery and equipment
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Exempting publicly purchased pollution control machinery and equipment used in health care facilities from the sales tax under certain conditions, permitting refunds for purchases after a certain date (rt) SF2230 - Human services state operated services office motor vehicles tax and fee exemptions; contraband in treatment facilities prohibition; firearm background check procedure modification
Latest Action: 04/13/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text SF2867 - Grave markers and memorial monuments bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for grants for grave markers or memorial monuments for unmarked graves of deceased residents of state hospitals or regional treatment centers (me) SF1514 - Health care providers third party purchasers gross receipts tax payment responsibilities
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Referred to Taxes Bill Text Authorizing health care providers transferring the gross receipts tax expense to third party purchasers to itemize the tax on patient billings, specifying certain tax payment responsibilities of third party purchasers and subjecting the purchasers to civil action by health care providers for actual damages incurred for failure to comply (je) SF1908 - Hospital charity care, bad debt and community benefit reporting requirements
Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring hospitals to establish written policies on charity care policies, requiring policy public posting, requiring hospitals to identify uninsured patients and assist in the application process to Minnesota health care programs; requiring hospitals to submit certain information to nonprofit reporting organizations or to the commissioner of health on charity care and bad debt; requiring hospitals to report community benefit amounts to the Minnesota hospital association (rt) SF3419 - State hospitals, institutions and county social services agencies motor vehicle registration tax and fees exemption and motor vehicle license plate display requirements modification
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Committee report: To pass Bill Text Authorizing certain state hospitals and institutions for persons who are mentally ill and developmentally disabled and county social service agencies providing child and vulnerable adult protection services to operate vehicles exempt from payment of registration tax and fees and without the required identification on the sides of the vehicle; regulating display of vehicle license plates; requiring vehicles displaying tax exempt plates to have vehicle identification markings (je) SF2902 - MinnesotaCare eligibility; other health care coverage definition modification
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Excluding certain supplemental health plans purchased solely to cover inpatient hospital expenses in excess of inpatient hospital annual limits from the definition of health coverage for purposes of MinnesotaCare eligibility determination, specifying qualifications (rt) SF1634 - Fergus Falls regional treatment center campus tax free renaissance zone
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Authorizing and providing for the designation of the campus of the former state regional treatment center in the city of Fergus Falls as a tax free renaissance zone, specifying the duration limit for the zone; exempting individuals residing in the zone and qualified businesses operating in the zone from income and property taxes, providing for an historic preservation tax credit (ra) SF2272 - Veterans nursing home design on the Brainerd regional treatment center site bond issue and appropriation
Latest Action: 04/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of administration and authorizing the issuance of state bonds to design a nursing home on the Brainerd regional treatment center site (me) SF2639 - Regional treatment centers and state nursing homes relocation authorization requirement
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring the commissioner of human services to seek legislative authorization prior to relocating regional treatment centers or state operated nursing homes and programs (je) SF2879 - Patient delivered partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections authorization and appropriation
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Requiring the commissioner of health to prioritize sexually transmitted infections treatment and prevention grant awards to agencies with populations with greater concentrations of chlamydia and gonorrhea, authorizing medical practitioners to dispense or prescribe oral antibiotic drugs for sexual partners or partners of patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted chlamydia or gonorrhea infections, specifying requirements for patient delivered partner therapy; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for sexually transmitted infections screening and treatment and an educational campaign (rt) SF0827 - Health plan companies sign and LEP language interpreter services coverage requirement; interpreter services work group establishment
Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Committee report: To pass as amended Bill Text Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E Relating to elections; changing the option for postsecondary educational institutions to prepare residential housing lists to be sent to the secretary of state for use in election day registration to a requirement, specifying certain name and address listing requirements; facilitating same day voter registration by updating certain election day registration proof of residence requirements; removing the limit on registered voter vouching for proof of residence and taking oaths on election day, removing secretary of state requirement to provide election judges with forms for voters signing proof of residence oaths; requiring employees of residential facilities to prove employment prior to being eligible to vouch for individuals residing in facilities; requiring challengers to take an oath to abide by laws and rules governing challengers (rt) Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Author added Sieben Bill Text Relating to safe patient handling; defining clinical settings that move patients; requiring every clinical setting that moves patients to develop a safe patient handling plan by a certain date; specifying plan components; accepting certain plans of facilities with existing programs; providing for availability of training materials; prescribing enforcement (me) SF2958 - Rural hospital payment adjustments expansion to diagnosis related groups
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Expanding the human services (DHS) rural (greater Minnesota) payment rate adjustments to include all diagnosis related groups (rt) SF0036 - Ambulance service and interfacility transfers provisions modifications
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Modifying certain provisions relating to basic life support ambulance services and interfacility transfers; increasing repayment amounts for volunteer training and continuing education courses (je) SF0828 - Safe Patient Handling Act
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 2E "Safe Patient Handling Act"; requiring every licensed health care facility in the state to implement by a certain date a safe patient handling program to eliminate patient manual lifting by nurses (RN) and (LPN) and direct patient care workers, requiring mechanical assistive devices use, requiring safe patient handling program committee formation, specifying further program and committee requirements and duties; providing for facilities with existing programs; authorizing commissioner of labor and industry enforcement; requiring the commissioner to study ways to require workers compensation insurers to recognize compliance in workers compensation premiums for health care and long term care facilities; appropriating money to the commissioner of labor and industry (rt) SF1395 - Health professional education loan forgiveness program for child mental health professionals expansion
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Expanding the health professional education loan forgiveness program to include midlevel pediatric psychiatry or mental health professionals and nurses practicing in hospital pediatric psychiatric units; appropriating money to the commissioner of health (rt) SF2324 - Minnesota Health Act
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Commerce and Consumer Protection Bill Text TICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS "Minnesota Health Act"; establishing the Minnesota health plan to provide residents all medically necessary health care services; specifying health plan requirements; defining certain terms; providing for ethics and conflict of interest; requiring certain data sharing ARTICLE 2 - ELIGIBILITY Providing for eligibility to all state residents; requiring the Minnesota health board to establish a procedure to enroll residents and provide enrollees with appropriate identification, allowing health care coverage for residents temporarily residing out of state, visitors, nonresident persons working in the state and retiree benefits; providing for presumptive eligibility ARTICLE 3 - BENEFITS Authorizing eligible persons to receive services under the Minnesota health plan from any licensed participating providers; prohibiting provider patient care refusal [...] show full description SF0251 - Resolution for Rochester veterans outpatient clinic name change to Corporal Chuck Lindberg clinic
Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Cons Cal: Stricken and re-referred to Rules and Administration Bill Text r /> Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Requiring the commissioner of veterans affairs to establish a wound prevention and formulary demonstration project at state veterans homes; specifying formulary components; setting certain performance milestones; providing for reimbursement and pay for performance and evaluation provisions; requiring the commissioner to present certain reports to the legislature by certain dates; appropriating money to the commissioner of veterans affairs (me) Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text TICLE 1 - PREGNANT WOMEN AND PARENT SUPPORT "Minnesota Pregnant Women and Parent Support Act"; prohibiting health plan imposition of policy waiting periods for prenatal and maternity health insurance benefits, defining policy waiting period; eliminating pregnancy as a preexisting condition; establishing a parenting support grant program under the direction of the office of higher education for public or private postsecondary institutions, specifying certain duties of the office; establishing an informational hotline on available pregnancy, adoption and parental support agencies; requiring information on alpha-fetoprotein testing for pregnant women when providing counseling under certain conditions; requiring adoption referral information to be provided by an organization, agency, clinic or health care center receiving state funding; requiring maternity group homes receiving federal funding to provide adoption [...] show full description SF1299 - PERA privatized public hospital benefits for Hutchinson area health care employees effective date clarification
Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to retirement; clarifying the Hutchinson area health care privatization effective date for purposes of publice employees retirement association (PERA) general employees retirement plan (rt) Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Author added Sieben Bill Text 2E Relating to elections; providing for delivery of absentee ballots to an agent of certain persons and return of ballots by an agent (ra) SF1535 - Mental illness and severe emotional disturbance care providers safety and protection training requirements
Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Business, Industry and Jobs Bill Text 1E Relating to health care facilities; requiring employers providing services to persons with mental illness or severe emotional disturbance to provide direct care staff and supervisors training in violence prevention and violence reduction, requiring certain documentation of training, documentation availability to employees, OSHA adherence, accident and injury reduction program establishment and collective bargaining representative communication (me) Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to be transferred to the Open Door health center (me) Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to illegal immigration; requiring the attorney general to annually compile data collected and submitted by law enforcement agencies regarding the federal response to illegal immigration requests from law enforcement officers; requiring the attorney general to prepare certain reports relating to monitoring federal response to illegal immigration requests and costs incurred by state and local units of government and hospitals because of the presence of and contact with illegal immigrants; requiring the attorney general to annually charge back the costs to the federal government and specifying certain reporting requirements to the legislature and the governor; specifying certain reporting requirements for law enforcement agencies relating to requests to federal immigration authorities (je) SF2959 - Rural hospital payment adjustments expansion to diagnosis related groups
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Expanding the human services (DHS) rural (greater Minnesota) payment rate adjustments to include all diagnosis related groups (rt) Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Author added Lynch Bill Text TICLE 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 [...] show full description SF1701 - Minnesota Health Records Act
Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Committee report: To pass as amended Bill Text 1E "Minnesota Health Records Act"; defining certain terms; specifying certain patients rights regarding access of a patient to patients health records; requiring a provider to provide patients a written notice concerning practices and rights with respect to health records, specifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to the development of notice requirements, specifying certain cost requirements, authorizing providers to withhold health records from patients under certain conditions; providing for release or disclosure of health records under certain conditions, specifying certain consent requirements and exceptions; specifying certain conditions for the disclosure of health records relating to mental health by a provider, limitations; permitting a provider or group purchaser to send patient identifying information and information about the location of the patient's health records to a record locator [...] show full description SF3662 - Hennepin county electronic exchange of medical data authority
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to Hennepin county; authorizing a nonprofit organization providing physician services and participating in an electronic exchange of health records to share certain medical data under the Minnesota government data practices act (je) SF0502 - Medical assistance long term hospital payment rates increase
Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to human services; requiring the commissioner of human services to increase the medical assistance payments to a long term care hospital under certain conditions; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for the adjustment (ra) SF0635 - Medical assistance inpatient hospital payment reductions elimination
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Relating to human services; eliminating certain reductions in the state share of the MinnesotaCare and medical assistance payments for inpatient hospital services; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services (me) Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 2E "Universal Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening Act"; specifying legislative findings and purpose; defining certain terms; requiring the commissioner of health to establish a newborn hearing screening advisory committee to advise the commissioner of health and education, specifying membership; requiring all hospitals to establish a universal newborn hearing and infant screening (UNHS) program as a condition of licensure, specifying duties, notification and information requirements; requiring commissioner of health to exercise oversight responsibility for UNHS programs; providing for immunity from civil and criminal liability and penalties; sunset provision (me) SF1709 - Health care provider grant and reimbursement modification; MinnesotaCare grant and enrollment process modification
Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Relating to health; modifying the application and renewal provisions procedures for essential community provider status, setting the application fee; requiring health plan companies to cover interpreter services; requiring the commissioner of health to award grants to community clinics, federally qualified heal centers, community mental health centers, community dental clinics and nonprofit organizations provide public health nursing services to uninsured patients to improve the implementation and use of certain interoperable electronic health records; requiring the commissioner of human services to reimburse providers for administration of the influenza vaccine; requiring the commissioner to award grants to federally qualified heal centers, community clinics, community mental health centers, other safety net clinics and hospitals to provide information on the importance of maintaining insurance coverage and how to obtain [...] show full description SF2372 - Health plan and medical assistance coverage for neuropsychological testing for children
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Health, Housing and Family Security Bill Text Requiring health insurance plans and medical assistance (MA) to provide coverage for neuropsychological testing for children and minors diagnosed with cancer, prohibiting health plan special restrictions imposition (rt) SF2700 - Gillette children's specialty healthcare renovation appropriation
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Appropriating money to the commissioner of administration for a grant to Ramsey county to plan and design renovations for surgical suites and the pediatric intensive care unit at Gillette children's specialty healthcare (me) SF0002 - Health care access provisions and modifications; universal health care coverage; electronic health records system
Latest Action: 02/22/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 2E Relating to health care access; expanding the definition of dependent coverage under health care access and small employer insurance reform; modifying the duties of the legislative commission on health care access to include making recommendations on achieving the goal of universal coverage, requiring the commissioners of human services and commerce to assist the commission; requiring hospitals and health care providers to implement interoperable electronic health records systems by a certain date, requiring the commissioner of health in consultation with the health information technology and infrastructure advisory committee to develop a statewide plan to meet the goal and report to the legislature by a certain date on the development of standards; requiring the commissioner of finance to establish and implement the electronic health record system revolving account and loan program, specifying eligibility and authorizing [...] show full description SF0080 - Smoking near entrances to public places and health care facilities and clinics prohibition
Latest Action: 01/11/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text SF0755 - Hospital acquired infections prevention measures performance reporting requirement
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to health; requiring the Minnesota hospital association to report hospital performance on measures of care developed to prevent hospital acquired infections, specifying infections to be included, requiring the commissioner of health to provide a web link for results, clarifying commissioner enforcement powers for noncompliance (rt) SF0842 - General assistance medical care program inpatient hospital services payment fee for service basis
Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring inpatient hospital services for persons receiving general assistance medical care (GAMC) to be paid on a fee for service basis (rt) Latest Action: 05/04/2007 - HF substituted on General Orders HF1078 Bill Text 1E Relating to health; modifying the hospital public interest review requirements; defining community benefit and community care; modifying the alternative approval process; requiring the commissioner of health to appoint an advisory committee, specifying minimum legislative appointees; requiring commissioner to monitor the implementation of exceptions until completion of the construction project to ensure the project continues in the public interest; requiring the commissioner to report annually on the community benefit, community care amounts and state program underfunding (je) Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Requiring children's hospital services provided by a former state hospital to be paid using methodology established for critical access hospitals under medical assistance (MA); appropriating money to the commissioner of human services (rt) SF1240 - Children's hospital inpatient and outpatient actual costs payment rates requirement
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Requiring children's hospital inpatient and outpatients services provided by a former state hospital for children with certain disabling conditions to be paid at rates reflecting actual hospital costs (rt) SF1241 - Children's hospital payment rates reductions prohibition and base costs increase
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Requiring cost based payment rates for a children's hospital services provided by a former state hospital for children with certain disabling conditions to not be reduced by ratable reductions enacted after a certain date and increasing base costs applicable to payments to the hospital by the annual average hosptial costs increases (rt) SF1963 - Health care cost containment provisions modifications; medical expenditure review committee; health care transformation task force; health care payment system reform; community collaborative pilot project grants
Latest Action: 04/11/2007 - Author added Saltzman Bill Text Relating to health; requiring the commissioner of health to submit annual reports on health care cost containment goals to the legislature; establishing a medical expenditure review advisory committee to act as a consumer voice in the review of major spending commitments, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; establishing a health care transformation task force, specifying certain duties and membership requirements, requiring the development of a statewide action plan for transforming the health care system to improve affordability, quality and access and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; specifying a date for the goal of universal health care coverage; requiring written hospital charity care policies, requiring the commissioner to adopt rules establishing standardized debt collection practices for hospitals; modifying performance payments for certain medical groups; requiring the show full description |
