How does the Minnesota Health Plan control costs?
The MnHP controls costs by cutting waste, not by denying care to patients. The MnHP controls costs through: • Administrative efficiency and elimination of the vast bureaucracy devoted to denying care, billing and paying out claims for care at different rates and with different coverage for the same procedure, elimination of insurance marketing and administration. • Increasing access to preventive services and early intervention for everyone, preventing costly emergency room and hospitalization expenses. • Bulk purchasing of drugs and medical supplies at lower, negotiated prices. • Allocation of medical infrastructure and resources (like hospitals and surgical centers) based on a region’s needs. • Annual budgets for health care facilities, rather than the current method of itemizing each pill dispensed, and each individual expense, and then billing them at different rates to different insurance companies for each patient treated. • Negotiation of provider fees. • More efficient delivery
The Minnesota Health Plan eliminates layers of bureaucratic paperwork from multiple insurance companies and enables Minnesota to deliver health care efficiently, meeting the needs of the patients instead of the interests of insurance companies. The MHP controls costs by cutting waste, not by denying care to patients.
