* § 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 Expired April 1, 2011