HF 3709 Summary

• Establishes a Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange for individual and small employer health plans with essential benefit requirements, competitive pricing comparisons, and accessibility for eligible Minnesotans starting January 1, 2012.

• Implements health care reform including baskets of care definitions, accountable care organizations with quality measurements, and regional payment reform systems for Medicare enrollees by January 1, 2012.

• Creates a publicly administered health plan through the Department of Human Services meeting federal requirements and offered through the Minnesota health insurance exchange by January 1, 2012.

• Expands medical assistance eligibility to adults without children with incomes up to 133-167 percent of federal poverty guidelines and modifies income calculations and asset limits effective various dates through July 2014.

• Repeals the MinnesotaCare program and related taxes effective October 1, 2019, or upon sunset of federal maintenance of effort requirements for children's Medicaid eligibility, transferring eligible individuals to expanded medical assistance coverage.