Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF2138

E Requiring health carriers offering individual coverage to provide + certain
information to individuals losing group continuation coverage +relating to
coverage differences and eligibility for coverage from other private +sources or
the comprehensive health insurance plan of the Minnesota +comprehensive health
association; increasing and modifying the composition of the MCHA +board of
directors; authorizing the association to provide an incentive for +enrollee
participation in the chronic disease management and case management +program as
a cost containment goal; eliminating the requirement for MCHA to +offer an
extended basic medicare supplement plan after a certain date; +expanding
enrollment ineligibility relating to eligibility for employer +sponsored plans
to dependents of employees, specifying certain conditions; requiring +the
association in consultation with the commissioner of commerce to +contract with
an independent entity to conduct an analysis of the eligibility +standards used
for enrollment relating to the use of presumptive conditions for +automatic
eligibility and the underwriting practices for the individual market +relating
to denial or coverage limits due to preexisting conditions, +specifying certain
analysis requirements, requiring a commissioner report of the results+ of the
study and recommendations to the legislature by a certain date, +requiring the
association to contract for claims analysis and evaluation of current+ disease
management and quality measurement function (je, ja)