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Minnesota Senate health committee debates removing health insurers from Medicaid, MinnesotaCare plans
The bill aims to replace managed care organizations with a single administrative services organization to reduce costs, citing Connecticut’s $4 billion savings, according to testimony.
- On Tuesday, members of the Minnesota Senate's Health and Human Services committee heard testimony on SF 3612, which would replace managed care with a single administrative organization for Medicaid and MinnesotaCare.
- The proposal would end managed care organizations' role and have the Minnesota Department of Human Services contract with one administrative services organization that does not take on financial risk, aiming to remove barriers like limited networks and prior authorizations.
- Supporters pointed to Connecticut's experience, with Sheldon Toubman saying the 2012 shift saved over $4 billion and 'We have very high medical cost ratios, around 97%, meaning almost all the taxpayers' money is actually going to health care, very little to administrative cost'.
- Opponents warned that more providers might reject Medicaid patients due to low reimbursements and asked, 'Managed care organizations leverage their commercial contracts and require in-network doctors to see patients on both their commercial and MA lines of business', Olson said.
- A fiscal note has not yet been produced, and Nancy Westman described administrative hurdles causing delayed care while Sen. Bill Lieske warned, 'I worry with a single option'.
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Minnesota Senate health committee debates removing health insurers from Medicaid, MinnesotaCare plans
ST. PAUL — Members of the Minnesota Senate's Health and Human Services committee heard testimony on a bill to remove insurance companies from Minnesota's Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs on Tuesday, March 10. "This proposal would eliminate that middleman for the two public programs because they create barriers to patient care using limited networks, different drug formularies which change, prior authorizations," said Sen. John Marty, DFL-Rose…
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