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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

State health insurers already contribute to reinsurance through taxes and assessments that go into the general fund, the proposed source for the program. Status: It was laid over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill. Read a summary of HF 958. Opposition Says: Reinsurance can be seen as a subsidy to well-funded health plan companies.

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5 Takeaways From Health Insurers’ New Pledge To Improve Prior Authorization

Physician's Weekly

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.