Health Economics Program
Annual Work
- Chartbooks
- Health Access Survey
- Minnesota All Payer Claims Database (MN APCD)
- Health Care Quality Measures
- Rx Price Transparency
Special Projects
- Implementation Updates
- Hospital Bed Moratorium
- Market Oversight
- Medical and Dental Standard Charges
- Study of Telehealth Expansion
- Statewide Health Care Needs and Capacity
- Universal Health Care Finance System
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Health Economics Program
Select Implementation Updates
As the Health Economics Program has various initiatives underway, this page serves to provide up-to-date information on certain projects. Keep an eye on this page for updates.
For background on the importance of creating the Center, please visit the Addressing Our Growing Health Care Costs Infographic (PDF).
For more information on the Center, visit the Center for Health Care Affordability website.
Utilization review organizations (UROs) must report prior authorization requests from the previous year—including approvals and denials—annually beginning September 2025 (Minnesota Statues 62M.19). MDH will publish the reporting guidance for UROs summer 2025.
Visit the Mental Health Bed Monitoring webpage for more information.
In order to get a more complete picture of health care spending in Minnesota—including utilization and spending on primary care—the Minnesota Legislature directed MDH to prepare a legislative report on health care spending payment models. This report will have particular focus on valued-based care models and primary care spending (Laws of Minnesota 2024, chapter 70, article 2, section 41).
To inform the report, MDH competed an environmental scan on non-claims-based payment reporting strategies and categories, interviewed health plans, and piloted data collection. Findings from the study, to be published in 2025, will inform annual collection of non-claims-based payment data from health plans.