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More than 35,000 additional low-wage earners may qualify for Medical Assistance coverage as a result of a new law that extends coverage to people making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty lev
By now, you’ve at lease heard that Minnesota is setting up an on-line market place for folks to buy health insurance, as directed by Obamacare. But how will it work? Continue Reading
The House voted 71-56 on Monday to exercise its option under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to expand Medical Assistance, a federal Medicaid program for people with low incomes.
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One of two health care bills on a fast-track to comply with federal health care reforms is on its way to the House floor without a previous contingency plan aimed at protecting the state’s financial burden, if federal funds disappear.
The Minnesota Health Exchange (House File 5 1st Engrossment/Senate File 1 2nd Engrossment) scheme which the Legislature is now debating is a controversial part of the health care reform movement. On top of that here have been stories recently in the local news about conflicts of interest with a legislator, now former legislator in the health care business, and a strong concern by the public of what government does with data about them illustrated by the DVS scandal and license plate scanners. There is a wary public out there wondering if the Legislature is going to allay concerns and fears that they have of this new creature called the Minnesota Insurance Marketplace. The public has a right to have concerns and fears and this is why. Continue Reading
Controversy over a health care bill about how a new Minnesota Insurance Marketplace will work caused a House committee to lay the bill over for further consideration, even though the bill’s sponsor had anticipated moving the bill forward today.
A custom-designed state health care program currently under construction and expected to roll out Jan. 1, 2014, will include some “must-haves” in order to comply with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The future framework for how individuals and Minnesota business owners, including 300,000 of today’s uninsured, could purchase health insurance coverage through an online competitive marketplace was unveiled by a bipartisan group of legislators.
NorthPoint Health and Wellness, Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health, Hennepin County Medical Center and Metropolitan Health Plan are partners in Hennepin Health, a local accountable care organization (ACO) pilot program that began last January. ACOs are alternate healthcare models, where groups of partners such as hospitals, clinics and physicians voluntary join together to serve a specific population. Its ultimate goal is to improve health care and reduce costs.The Hennepin Health model serves low-income single adults ages 21-64 without dependents living with them, with incomes at or below 75 percent of poverty. It started with 4,884 enrollees: Nearly 70 percent are people of color, and 60 percent either have some level of chemical dependency, mental health needs, chronic pain or unstable housing.Minnesota Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson told the MSR during a healthcare forum in St. Paul in December that ACOs are “a shared-saving clause [of the Affordable Care Act], and basically an incentive to providers to do better and do it more efficiently…a new way that the federal government can work directly with…a group of providers.”NorthPoint CEO Stella Whitney-West in an interview with the MSR last week said that to effectively serve the target population it must be done comprehensively. Continue Reading