Section 2999-D. Commissioner's workgroup

1.  The  commissioner shall,
  within ninety days of the effective date  of  this  title,  convene  and
  chair,  directly  or  through  a  designee  or  designees,  a  workgroup
  including but not necessarily limited to  representatives  of  statewide
  and  regional  health  care  provider  associations,  health  care  plan
  associations and conferences, hospital representatives, consumers, labor
  and   self-insured   employers.   The   commissioner   shall    consider
  recommendations  and  criteria  developed  by  the  workgroup  in making
  determinations under this title.
    2. The  workgroup  shall  seek  consensus  on  clinical  measures  and
  measurement criteria necessary and appropriate to achieve improvement in
  quality  performance  by  providers  in delivering health care services;
  further, it shall  develop  metrics  to  be  utilized  by  demonstration
  projects  selected  pursuant to the provisions of this title which will,
  when implemented:
    (a) promote the use of  best  practices  through  the  development  of
  broadly agreed upon evidence-based performance measures;
    (b)  improve  care  coordination through the participation of multiple
  stakeholders;
    (c) institute long-term quality improvement;
    (d) encourage appropriate utilization  of  health  care  services  and
  improve  health  outcomes  through  the  use  of evidence-based medicine
  practice guidelines; and
    (e) promote self-management by consumers through the implementation of
  patient-specific metrics and resource supports for consumers.
    3. In its recommendations, the workgroup shall give  consideration  to
  the  appropriate number of participants in each demonstration project as
  well as the geographic boundaries of each demonstration project.
    * NB Expires April 1, 2011