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Description and Upcoming Meetings

The Governor's Health Care Reform Task Force includes commissioners, legislators, and private sector representatives and is charged with developing strategies that: 

     - Improve access to health care for all Minnesotans
     - Lower health care costs by reforming how we pay for health care and changing the incentives, so we encourage preventative care and reward healthy outcomes, not sickness.
     - Improve the health of all Minnesotans and address the huge health disparities that plague our state.

The primary deliverable from this group is the Roadmap to a Healthier Minnesota which will include policy recommendations (legislative and administrative) and will be presented to the Governor and legislature in November 2012.  The Task Force will also provide recommendations to the Governor and legislature as needed throughout the year as relevant issues arise.

Citizen Engagement in Health Reform:  Citizen Solutions Forums 
Join Citizen Solutions to engage with other Minnesotans in a conversation about what's important to the future of health and healthcare in our state. Additional forums will be held throughout the state.  In August, the Bush Foundation and Citizens League will deliver a report to the Health Care Reform Task Force on the values and priorities that have been heard from people and businesses across the state.

Scheduled Forums:
May 23:  Willmar
May 24:  Elk River
May 30:  Austin
June 5:  Saint Paul/Mac-Groveland
June 13:  Saint Louis Park
June 18:  Stillwater


Please view the Citizen Solutions website to see addtional forum dates.

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Proposed Health Care Reform Task Force and Work Group Meeting Schedule

Monday, June 4, 2012
2:30 - 5:30 p.m. 
Mayo Clinic Downtown Campus
Siebens Building
200 1st St. SW
Rochester, MN 55905
Link to Map

Thursday, July 12, 2012
2:30 to 5:30 p.m. 
University of MN - Duluth
Kirby Student Center
1120 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
LINK to Map

Archive/Meeting Materials:

June 4, 2012

Directions to Siebens Building, Mayo Campus

Please check back for additional meeting materials.

May 3, 2012

Agenda (PDF) 
FINAL Minutes from April 2, 2012 (PDF)
Exchange Update (PDF)
Citizen Solutions Healthcare (PDF)
Principles Framing Statement
Workforce - All Exhibits (PDF)
Workforce Update (PDF)
Workforce Supplemental Documents (PDF) 
Proposed Meeting Schedule (PDF) 

 

April 2, 2012

FINAL Minutes from April 2, 2012 (PDF)
Agenda (PDF) 
ACO Background Material (PDF)
Implementing ACOs (PDF)
Implementing Global Payment (PDF)
Task Force Work Plan (PDF)
Perspectives on the Exchange - Mason (PDF)
Great Clips Presentation (PDF)
Citizen Solutions Healthcare (PDF)
Total Cost of Care Contracting in MN (PDF)  
Minutes from March 1, 2012 FINAL (PDF)

March 1, 2012
Minutes from March 1, 2012 FINAL (PDF)
Agenda (PDF)
Feedback and Recommendations on EHB (PDF)
CMS Challenge Grants - MN Submissions (PDF)
Health Care Innovation Challenge Fact Sheet (PDF)
HealthPartners Total Cost of Care (PDF)
Engagement Plan for Task Force (PDF)
Possible Topics for Citizen Engagement (PDF)
Focus Group Interim Summary (PDF)
Feedback and Recommendations on EHB (PDF)
Actuarial Value Bulletin (PDF)
Essential Health Benefits FAQ (PDF)
Exchange Milestones (PDF)
HealthPartners Health Reform (PDF)
Inter-collaborative Council Agenda (PDF)
Provider Peer Grouping (PDF)
Minutes from February 6, 2012 Meeting FINAL (PDF)  

February 6, 2012

Minutes from February 6, 2012 Meeting FINAL (PDF)
Agenda (PDF)
Access Work Group Update (PDF)
Essential Health Benefit Presentation (PDF)
Essential Health Benefit - State Mandates (PDF)
Minnesota Benefit Chart - Revised 2-6-2012 (PDF) 
Consumer - Business Engagement Plan and Timeline (PDF)
Exchange Summary (PDF)
Recommendations of Exchange Advisory Task Force (PDF)
Reinhardt Paper - Health Economics 2012 (PDF)
Final minutes from January 5, 2012 meeting (PDF) 



January 5, 2012

Final minutes from January 5, 2012 meeting (PDF)
Agenda (PDF)
Draft Meeting Minutes from December 5, 2011 (PDF)
Citizen-Driven Health Reform (PDF)
Essential Health Benefits Bulletin (PDF)
Draft Task Force Principles (PDF)
Presentation - MN and the New Normal (PDF)
Meeting Minutes - December 5, 2011 FINAL (PDF)

December 5, 2011

Agenda (PDF)
Meeting Minutes - December 5, 2011 FINAL (PDF)
Proposed Meeting Calendar (PDF)
Proposed Principles and Work Groups (PDF)
Draft Meeting Minutes - November 14, 2011 (PDF)
Health Care Reform Task Force Work Groups - Membership - Revised  (PDF)
Preliminary Expert List (PDF)
Health Insurance Exchange Section Module Testing

November 14, 2011

Agenda (PDF)
Minnesota Health Care Reform Task Force - Presentation by Human Services Commissioner, Lucinda Jesson (PDF)
Health Care Reform Task Force Goal Setting - Presentation by Douglas L. Wood, M.D. (PDF)
Proposed Meeting Schedule (PDF)
Proposed Workgroups (PDF)
Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Technical Work Groups (PDF)
Health Insurance Exchange Overview - Presentation to the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Advisory task Force on November 8, 2011
State Policymakers' Priorities for Successful Implementation of Health Reform - National Academy for State Health Policy (PDF)

Meeting Minutes - FINAL - November 14, 2011 (PDF)

Task Force and Work Group Summaries
List of Health Care Reform Task Force Members (PDF)
Task Force and Work Groups Summary (PDF)
Task Force Working Principles (PDF)
Public Engagement

Consumer Engagement - Citizen-Driven Health Reform (PDF)
Expert List - Rev 2/6/2012 (PDF)
Expert List - Rev 3/1/2012 (PDF)

Executive Order 11-30
Executive Order 11-30
Minnesota Initiatives - 2008-2010
2008 Minnesota Health Care Transformation Task Force Report
2010 Minnesota Health Care Reform Task Force Report
2008 Health Care Reform Summary
Minnesota Response to the Federal Government

Minnesota response to Request for Comments Regarding Proposed Rules Regarding Standards Related to Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment; the Establishment of Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans; Exchange Functions in the Individual Market: Eligibility Determinations and Exchange Standards for Employers; Medicaid Program: Eligibility Changes under the Affordable Care Act of 2010; and Health Insurance Premium Tax Credits. (October, 2011)

Minnesota response to Request for Information Regarding State Flexibility to Establish a Basic Health Program. (October, 2011)