SF 1310 Senate Long Description
E Relating to human services; authorizing the commissioner of human services to administer the federal drug rebate program for drugs purchased under the medical assistance (MA) program, requiring the collection of rebates for drugs dispensed or administered in outpatient settings from manufacturers signing rebate agreements with the federal department of health and human services; prohibiting use of the hospital surcharge for inpatient hospital payment rate setting purposes; authorizing the commissioner to contract with federally recognized Indian tribes to provide early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment administrative services for American Indian children; expanding medical assistance eligibility for families and children, disregarding as income child support and social security payments to certain disabled children; modifying the calculation of the monthly premium under medical assistance for employed persons with disabilities and expanding eligibility for the aged, blind or disabled; providing an honorarium and mileage reimbursement for members of the drug formulary committee and increasing the honorarium and providing a mileage reimbursement for members of the drug utilization review board; increasing the pharmacy dispensing fee and setting the estimated actual acquisition cost for certain products and establishing the basis for determining the amount of payment for drugs administered in outpatient settings; providing medical assistance coverage for certain oral language interpreter services; providing an alternative payment method for rural health clinic and federally qualified health center services; providing for MinnesotaCare payments to Indian health services facilities for medical assistance enrollees not eligible for federal financial participation; requiring the commissioner to implement a prepaid medical assistance program in counties not gaining federal approval for county based purchasing by a certain date; replacing certain medical assistance hospital outpatient payment rates with a budget neutral prospective payment system, requiring the commissioner to provide a proposal to the legislature to define and implement the system; requiring the commissioner to determine the effect of improved access to coverage of prepregnancy family planning services on the reduction of medical assistance and Minnesota family investment program costs; discontinuing medical assistance eligibility under MFIP for persons discontinuing cash assistance and under the work first program; modifying the funding source and expanding eligibility and third party payers potential liability identification requirements for certain children, expanding eligibility for single adults and households without children and private insurance availability information requirements and exempting certain enrollees from the premium payment requirement under the MinnesotaCare program; requiring MinnesotaCare to cover health care services provided at Indian health service facilities and modifying the sliding fee scale; delaying the date for the report by the commissioner to the legislature on programs for senior citizens and requiring commissioner advance notice to medical assistance recipients receiving coverage through the employed persons with disabilities program of the new premium schedule; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to verify the status of immigrants for public assistance eligibility purposes (ra, ja)