Relating to health; defining uniform explanation of benefits document and uniform remittance advice report and modifying certain uniform billing requirements under the health care administrative simplification act; prescribing standards for Minnesota uniform health care reimbursement documents; providing an exception from the health care identification card requirement; regulating complementary and alternative health care practitioners; defining certain terms including complementary and alternative health care practices; creating the office of unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practice in the department of health to investigate complaints and take and enforce disciplinary actions against unlicensed practitioners for violations of prohibited conduct, to serve as a clearinghouse on complementary and alternative health care practices and practitioners and to disseminate information to consumers, requiring the commissioner of health to adopt rules; specifying certain reporting obligations of the practitioners relating to the maltreatment of minors, parents not to be relieved of the duty to seek necessary medical care for children receiving complementary and alternative health care; imposing certain reporting obligations on state agencies, local government units, private agencies, hospitals, clinics, prepaid medical plans, other health care institutions or organizations, professional societies, licensed health care professionals, insurers and the courts relating to conduct constituting grounds for disciplinary action and actions taken and providing for self reporting; granting immunity from civil liability or criminal prosecution for reporters and investigators; requiring courts reviewing disciplinary actions taken by the commissioner to seal the portions of the administrative record containing data on clients or complainants; requiring the cooperation of unlicensed practitioners with investigations; classifying certain data; requiring the office to establish internal operating procedures for exchanging information with state boards and agencies, law enforcement personnel and other states and for coordinating investigations; requiring the office to maintain and keep current a file containing the reports and complaints filed against practitioners; specifying certain prohibited conduct and certain procedures for disciplinary action; providing for certain additional remedies, granting the commissioner certain cease and desist order issuance authority and providing for injunctive relief; establishing a complementary and alternative health care client bill of rights; exempting unlicensed practitioners from regulation by the board of medical practice; modifying certain provisions regulating speech language pathologists, audiologists, unlicensed mental health practitioners, alcohol and drug counselors and hearing instrument dispensers; modifying certain supervised training requirements for speech language pathologist and audiologist registration applicants; providing for the issuance of temporary registration as a speech language pathologist or audiologist by the commissioner of health under certain conditions; expanding requirements for registration after a lapse of more than a certain number of years; modifying certain continuing education requirements; excluding American Indian medicine men and women, licensed attorneys, probation officers, school counselors, registered occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants from the definition of unlicensed mental health practitioner; expanding prohibited conduct for unlicensed mental health practitioners to bartering for services with clients; requiring unlicensed mental health practitioners subject to investigation to sign a release authorizing the commissioner to obtain certain nonpublic data; clarifying the scope of the mental health client bill of rights; defining or redefining certain terms relating to alcohol and drug counselors; modifying certain examination requirements; specifying certain requirements for temporary practice; modifying certain qualification requirements for transitional licensure and certain grounds for license suspension, revocation or restriction; authorizing the commissioner of health to contract with the commissioner of human services to obtain criminal history data from the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA); allowing temporary practice without a license under certain conditions; clarifying the exception to licensing requirements; defining direct and indirect supervision relating to hearing instrument dispensers; increasing the minimum age for certificate application; modifying the examination requirement exemption for audiology registrants; placing a limit on the number of examinations allowed to be taken by applicants; modifying certain trainee supervision requirements and providing for trainee certification by reciprocity and for automatic expiration of the trainee period; prohibiting dispensing to a minor without evaluation by an audiologist; delaying the repeal of the board of boxing; requiring the commissioner of health to examine issues relating to rising health insurance costs and develop recommendations for providing affordable health insurance to employees of programs and facilities serving the elderly and disabled to be provided to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by a certain date on the number and types of complaints received against unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners, the number of investigations conducted and the number and types of enforcement actions completed; repealing certain additional licensing requirements for alcohol and drug counselors(Ch. 460, 2000)