General Information

• The Minnesota Council of Health Plans is an association of eight licensed nonprofit health care organizations providing coverage to 4 million individuals. See where Minnesotans get their health care coverage.

• All Minnesota Council of Health Plans members are by law nonprofit organizations. Of the 50 states, Minnesota is the only one that prohibits for-profit HMOs. Print a copy of the Council Fact Sheet.

• Minnesota Council of Health Plans members provide employment for more than 15,900 Minnesotans throughout the state.

• Minnesota's health plans paid more than $87.5 million in payroll, state income and property taxes.

• Minnesota's oldest health plan, First Plan of Minnesota (based in Two Harbors), was founded more than 60 years ago.

• In 2004, Minnesota's nonprofit health plans contributed more than $10 million to grants and other direct support to research, teaching and community service organizations.
  

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