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MN HF32
Bill
Status
12/14/2020
Primary Sponsor
Steve Elkins
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AI Summary
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Requires hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, and medical practices with annual revenue exceeding $50,000,000 that derive majority revenue from specified services to publicly disclose their current standard charges from their chargemaster.
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Covered services include diagnostic radiology, diagnostic laboratory testing, orthopedic procedures, ophthalmologic procedures, anesthesia services, and oncology services.
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Medical practices must report 16 specific data attributes including federal tax identification number, service billing codes, gross charges, discounted cash prices, and effective dates in comma-separated values file format.
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Commissioner of health may develop and operate a public price comparison tool using reported charge data to allow consumers to compare costs for specific items and services across medical practices.
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Effective immediately upon final enactment.
Legislative Description
Medical practices required to make available to the public their current standard charges, and commissioner of health authorized to establish a price comparison tool for items and services offered by medical practices.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce
12/14/2020