Minnesota Legislature
HF 3153
as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 03/17/2022 05:23pm
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A bill for an act
relating to health; modifying and expanding medical assistance coverage of tobacco
and nicotine cessation treatment; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections
256B.0625, by adding a subdivision; 256L.03, subdivision 5; Minnesota Statutes
2021 Supplement, section 256B.0631, subdivision 1, as amended.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 256B.0625, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:
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(a) Medical assistance covers tobacco and
nicotine cessation services, drugs to treat tobacco and nicotine addiction or dependence,
and drugs to help individuals discontinue use of tobacco and nicotine products. Medical
assistance must cover services and drugs as provided in this subdivision consistent with
evidence-based or evidence-informed best practices.
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(b) Medical assistance must cover in-person individual and group tobacco and nicotine
cessation education and counseling services if provided by a health care practitioner whose
scope of practice encompasses tobacco and nicotine cessation education and counseling.
Service providers include but are not limited to the following:
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(1) mental health practitioners under section 245.462, subdivision 17;
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(2) mental health professionals under section 245.462, subdivision 18;
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(3) mental health certified peer specialists under section 256B.0615;
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(4) alcohol and drug counselors licensed under chapter 148F;
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(5) recovery peers as defined in section 245F.02, subdivision 21;
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(6) certified tobacco treatment specialists;
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(7) community health workers;
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(8) physicians;
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(9) physician assistants;
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(10) advanced practice registered nurses; or
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(11) other licensed or nonlicensed professionals or paraprofessionals with training in
providing tobacco and nicotine cessation education and counseling services.
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(c) Medical assistance must cover telephone cessation counseling services provided
through a quitline service operated by or under contract with a participating entity and
statewide quitline services operated by or under contract with the commissioner of health
under section 144.397. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the commissioner of
health, establish payments for quitline services at a payment rate or level of funding consistent
with federal match requirements for state administrative and claims costs. The commissioner,
after consultation with the commissioner of health, may elect to provide all telephone
cessation counseling services through the statewide quitline service operated by or under
contract with the commissioner of health under section 144.397.
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(d) Medical assistance must cover all prescription and over-the-counter pharmacotherapy
drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for cessation of tobacco
and nicotine use or treatment of tobacco and nicotine dependence, and that are subject to a
Medicaid drug rebate agreement.
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(e) Services covered under this subdivision may be provided by telemedicine.
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(f) The commissioner must not:
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(1) restrict or limit the type, duration, or frequency of tobacco and nicotine cessation
services;
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(2) prohibit the simultaneous use of multiple cessation services, including but not limited
to simultaneous use of counseling and drugs;
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(3) require counseling prior to receiving drugs or as a condition of receiving drugs;
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(4) limit pharmacotherapy drug dosage amounts or frequency, or impose duration or
quantity limits;
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(5) prohibit simultaneous use of multiple drugs, including prescription and
over-the-counter drugs;
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(6) require or authorize step therapy; or
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(7) require or utilize prior authorization or require a co-payment or deductible for any
tobacco and nicotine cessation services and drugs covered under this subdivision.
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(g) The commissioner must require all participating entities under contract with the
commissioner to comply with this subdivision when providing coverage, services, or care
management for medical assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees. For purposes of this
subdivision, "participating entity" means any of the following:
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(1) a health carrier as defined in section 62A.011, subdivision 2;
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(2) a county-based purchasing plan established under section 256B.692;
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(3) an accountable care organization or other entity participating as an integrated health
partnership under section 256B.0755;
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(4) an entity operating a county integrated health care delivery network pilot project
authorized under section 256B.0756;
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(5) a network of health care providers established to offer services under medical
assistance or MinnesotaCare; or
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(6) any other entity that has a contract with the commissioner to cover, provide, or
manage health care services provided to medical assistance or MinnesotaCare enrollees on
a capitated or risk-based payment arrangement or under a reimbursement methodology with
substantial financial incentives to reduce the total cost of health care for a population of
patients that is enrolled with or assigned or attributed to the entity.
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Sec. 2.
Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 256B.0631, subdivision 1, is amended
to read:
Subdivision 1.
Cost-sharing.
(a) Except as provided in subdivision 2, the medical
assistance benefit plan deleted text begin shalldeleted text end new text begin mustnew text end include the following cost-sharing for all recipients,
effective for services provided on or after September 1, 2011:
(1) $3 per nonpreventive visit, except as provided in paragraph (b)new text begin and except that a
co-payment must not apply to tobacco and nicotine cessation services covered under section
256B.0625, subdivision 68new text end . For purposes of this subdivision, a visit means an episode of
service which is required because of a recipient's symptoms, diagnosis, or established illness,
and which is delivered in an ambulatory setting by a physician or physician assistant,
chiropractor, podiatrist, nurse midwife, advanced practice nurse, audiologist, optician, or
optometrist;
(2) $3.50 for nonemergency visits to a hospital-based emergency room, except that this
co-payment shall be increased to $20 upon federal approval;
(3) $3 per brand-name drug prescription, $1 per generic drug prescription, and $1 per
prescription for a brand-name multisource drug listed in preferred status on the preferred
drug list, subject to a $12 per month maximum for prescription drug co-payments. deleted text begin Nodeleted text end
Co-payments deleted text begin shalldeleted text end new text begin must notnew text end apply to antipsychotic drugs when used for the treatment of
mental illnessnew text begin . Co-payments must not apply to drugs when used for tobacco and nicotine
cessationnew text end ;
(4) a family deductible equal to $2.75 per month per family and adjusted annually by
the percentage increase in the medical care component of the CPI-U for the period of
September to September of the preceding calendar year, rounded to the next higher five-cent
increment; and
(5) total monthly cost-sharing must not exceed five percent of family income. For
purposes of this paragraph, family income is the total earned and unearned income of the
individual and the individual's spouse, if the spouse is enrolled in medical assistance and
also subject to the five percent limit on cost-sharing. This paragraph does not apply to
premiums charged to individuals described under section 256B.057, subdivision 9.
(b) Recipients of medical assistance are responsible for all co-payments and deductibles
in this subdivision.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), the commissioner, through the contracting process
under sections 256B.69 and 256B.692, may allow managed care plans and county-based
purchasing plans to waive the family deductible under paragraph (a), clause (4). The value
of the family deductible deleted text begin shalldeleted text end new text begin mustnew text end not be included in the capitation payment to managed
care plans and county-based purchasing plans. Managed care plans and county-based
purchasing plans deleted text begin shalldeleted text end new text begin mustnew text end certify annually to the commissioner the dollar value of the
family deductible.
(d) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), the commissioner may waive the collection of the
family deductible described under paragraph (a), clause (4), from individuals and allow
long-term care and waivered service providers to assume responsibility for payment.
(e) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), the commissioner, through the contracting process
under section 256B.0756 shall allow the pilot program in Hennepin County to waive
co-payments. The value of the co-payments deleted text begin shalldeleted text end new text begin mustnew text end not be included in the capitation
payment amount to the integrated health care delivery networks under the pilot program.
Sec. 3.
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 256L.03, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5.
Cost-sharing.
(a) Co-payments, coinsurance, and deductibles do not apply to
children under the age of 21 and to American Indians as defined in Code of Federal
Regulations, title 42, section 600.5.
(b) The commissioner deleted text begin shalldeleted text end new text begin mustnew text end adjust co-payments, coinsurance, and deductibles for
covered services in a manner sufficient to maintain the actuarial value of the benefit to 94
percent. The cost-sharing changes described in this paragraph do not apply to eligible
recipients or services exempt from cost-sharing under state law. The cost-sharing changes
described in this paragraph shall not be implemented prior to January 1, 2016.
(c) The cost-sharing changes authorized under paragraph (b) must satisfy the requirements
for cost-sharing under the Basic Health Program as set forth in Code of Federal Regulations,
title 42, sections 600.510 and 600.520.
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(d) Cost-sharing must not apply to drugs used for tobacco and nicotine cessation or to
tobacco and nicotine cessation services covered under section 256B.0625, subdivision 68.
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