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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota House Bill 255 Establishes Patient-Centered Care Program and Direct State Provider Payments
Last action · February 17, 2026: Authors added Kozlowski, Falconer, and KraftSponsors: Tina Liebling and 18 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota House Bill 255 establishes the Patient-Centered Care program, authorizing the commissioner of human services to pay licensed health care providers and clinics directly for services rendered to and enrollees. The measure discontinues managed care plan and integrated health partnership contracts for these enrollees, institutes per-person care coordination fees, and appropriates money for community outreach grants effective January 1, 2026.
- Minnesota's Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare programs traditionally utilized managed care organizations and integrated health partnerships to deliver and manage health care services for low-income residents. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Medical Assistance enrollees
Enrollees receive services through direct provider payments, primary care care-coordination oversight, and access to a 24/7 nurse consultation helpline and provider-locating hotline.
MinnesotaCare enrollees
Enrollees receive services through direct provider payments and care coordination fees paid to primary care providers.
licensed health care providers
Licensed health care providers and individual clinics bill the state or county-based purchasers directly for services, receive separate payments for drugs and vaccines, and can receive monthly care coordination fees.
managed care plans
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
6 actions- Feb 17, 2026HouseAuthors added Kozlowski, Falconer, and Kraft
- Mar 20, 2025HouseAuthors added Hollins, Sencer-Mura, and Coulter
- Mar 17, 2025HouseAuthor added Vang
- Mar 11, 2025HouseAuthors added Hanson, J.; Mahamoud; and Johnson, P.
- Feb 17, 2025HouseAuthor added Virnig
- Feb 10, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy
Version history
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Discoveries
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Elimination of Managed Care in Public Programs
The bill explicitly prohibits the renewal of state contracts with managed care plans and integrated health partnerships, shifting public healthcare administration entirely to direct state and county-based purchasing payments.
Connected Entities
Sources
www.revisor.mn.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 85)
- Controversy75Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz60Current news / social attention level
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