1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health care; requiring a health plan company to make available a fee 
1.3 	schedule;amending Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 62Q.735, subdivision 1.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 62Q.735, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.6 		Subdivision 1.Contract disclosure. (a) Before requiring a health care provider to sign 
1.7 	a contract, a health plan company shall give to the provider a complete copy of the proposed 
1.8 	contract, including:
1.9 	(1) all attachments and exhibits;
1.10 	(2) operating manuals;
1.11 	(3) a general description of the health plan company's health service coding guidelines 
1.12 	and requirement for procedures and diagnoses with modifiers, and multiple procedures; and
1.13 	(4) all guidelines and treatment parameters incorporated or referenced in the contract.
1.14 	(b) The health plan company shall make available to the provider the fee schedule or a 
1.15 	method or process that allows the provider to determine the fee schedule for each health 
1.16 	care service to be provided under the contract.
1.17 	(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), a health plan company that is a dental plan 
1.18 	organization, as defined in section 62Q.76, shall disclose information related to the individual 
1.19 	contracted provider's expected reimbursement to each provider the fee schedule by procedure 
1.20 	code for each procedure to be performed under the contract in order for the provider to 
1.21 	determine the expected reimbursement from the dental plan organization. Nothing in this 
2.1 	section requires a dental plan organization to disclose the plan's aggregate maximum 
2.2 	allowable fee table used to determine other providers' fees. The contracted provider must 
2.3 	not release this information in any way that would violate any state or federal antitrust law.