Patient-Centered Care program establishment

SF 3612 establishes Minnesota's Patient-Centered Care program to directly pay healthcare providers for services to medical assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees, replacing current managed care contracts. The bill requires the state to pay providers directly on a fee-for-service basis, ends contracts with existing managed care plans, and authorizes counties to use their own purchasing systems as administrative services organizations (ASOs). Key provisions include funding care coordination services like chronic disease management, behavioral health integration, and transportation assistance through community-based teams, while ensuring providers aren't shifted financial risk. This affects over 500,000 medical assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees, healthcare providers, and county health systems.