February 3, 2022
The Minnesota Health Leadership Council, a coalition of public and private employers and community organizations, including the MMA, dedicated to improving mental health care and outcomes, has partnered with NORC at the University of Chicago to create a survey to understand individuals’ experiences in accessing healthcare for mental health and substance use conditions. The MMA urges physicians to participate.
Through March 1, adults can respond for themselves or on behalf of a family member, friend, or patient they know who has needed care for mental health or substance use conditions since January of 2019. The survey, which can be accessed in English and in Spanish via this link, takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Survey topics include:
whether care was needed but not received and why
the impact of COVID-19 on conditions and access to care
the frequency with which respondents used out-of-network providers and why
the search times and wait times for in-network providers
insurance denial rates
perceptions of care facilitated by telehealth and phone applications.
Survey responses are voluntary, confidential, and subject only to aggregate reporting. Survey findings will be public and used to help mental health care advocates identify issues, understand patient experiences, and enable stakeholder conversations regarding strategies to improve access to care.
May 29, 2025
As the Legislature works to complete its work on the state’s two-year budget, another deadline is looming. Legislators are required to pass a balanced budget before the end of the fiscal year—June 30, 2025. If they don’t meet that deadline, the state will begin a partial shutdown.
May 29, 2025
Registration has opened for the Empowering Physicians: A Night of Reflection and Engagement event, featuring best-selling author Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD.
May 29, 2025
The AMA is encouraging physicians to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to revise the reconciliation bill passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives. While the bill includes language that would stabilize Medicare physician payments, it also threatens to cripple Medicaid and CHIP.