Relating to health care administrative simplification

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill directs the work group convened by the commissioner of insurance, annually, during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, to consider ways to bring about greater standardization, streamlining and simplification of health care administrative transactions, increased electronic exchanges of administrative data, and reduced administrative costs and burdens. Specifically, the work group is directed to consider the work of other states regarding health care administrative simplification including the Minnesota administrative uniformity committee and the Minnesota health care administrative simplification initiative and make recommendations regarding uniform, health care electronic data interchange standards that comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) for health care transactions including eligibility verifications, claims, remittance advices, and acknowledgments; a HIPAA-compliant, single, uniform companion guide for the electronic exchange of patient eligibility verifications, claims, remittance advices, and acknowledgments; unique identification numbers to be used by health care providers, health insurance carriers, and patients, including applicable privacy standards to protect the identity of the individual subject of the data exchanged; a uniform explanation of benefits document; and best practices to be incorporated by health care providers and health insurance carriers to reduce the cost of providing health insurance coverage and health care services in the state.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named January 23, 2019. On January 31, 2019 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Shannon Lundgren REmail
• Rep. Brian Best R
• Rep. John Forbes D

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