(b) The department of health, office of rural health, shall provide an information report to the MinnesotaCare finance division of the house health and human services committee and the senate health care committee no later than January 15, 1999, on the status of direct contracting between health provider cooperatives and self-insured employer plans or qualified employers in accordance with sections 62R.17 to 62R.26. The report shall consider the effects on public policy and on health provider cooperatives of a possible requirement that health provider cooperatives using direct contracting be obligated to become community integrated service networks.

* NOTE: See section 62R.26 for expiration date.