CLINICAL INITIATIVE EVALUATION PROCESS.

The commission shall establish and implement an evaluation process for the submission, preliminary review, analysis, and approval of a clinical initiative. The process must:

(1) require that a suggestion for a clinical initiative be submitted to the state Medicaid director;

(2) allow the commission to conduct, with the assistance of an appropriate advisory committee or similar group as determined by the commission, a preliminary review of each suggested clinical initiative to determine whether the initiative warrants further consideration and analysis under Section 543.0054;

(3) require the commission to publish on the Internet website maintained in accordance with Section 543.0003 the criteria the commission uses in the preliminary review under Subdivision (2) to determine whether an initiative warrants analysis under Section 543.0054;

(4) limit the number of suggestions analyzed under Section 543.0054;

(5) require that a suggestion for a clinical initiative selected for analysis under Section 543.0054 be published on the Internet website maintained in accordance with Section 543.0003 not later than the 30th day after the date the state Medicaid director receives the suggestion;

(6) provide for a formal public comment period that lasts at least 30 days during which the public may submit comments and research relating to a suggested clinical initiative;

(7) require commission employees to analyze, in accordance with Section 543.0054, each suggested clinical initiative selected for analysis; and

(8) require the development and publication of a final report in accordance with Section 543.0055 on each clinical initiative selected for analysis under Section 543.0054 not later than the 180th day after the date the state Medicaid director receives the suggestion.