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SF 1844 Senate Long Description

E Relating to human services; requiring the commissioner of human services to develop a short application form to be used to determine the eligibility of children for medical assistance (MA), general assistance medical care and the MinnesotaCare program; requiring the commissioner or county agency to verify income for medical assistance eligibility purposes using electronic verification, authorizing the requirement for individual additional verification under certain conditions; expanding medical assistance eligibility for children and eligibility for retroactive payments; requiring the commissioner to develop and implement a pilot project under medical assistance and GAMC establishing presumptive eligibility for children with family income at or below the medical assistance guidelines, requiring expansion to additional locations after a certain date; requiring the commissioner to coordinate a public private partnership to provide a statewide outreach campaign on the importance of health coverage and the availability of coverage through public assistance health care programs and the private health insurance market, requiring commissioner grants to public or private organizations to provide local community based outreach to assist families with children in obtaining health coverage, specifying certain consideration requirements of the commissioner in awarding the grants, providing for local sites and requiring commissioner implementation of a toll free resource telephone number to provide information on health care coverage options and creation of an uncompensated care pool to reimburse community clinics providing initial health care screenings and preventive care services to uninsured children, requiring the clinics or providers to offer services ranging from information to on-site enrollment as a condition for reimbursement from the pool; expanding the definition of cooperation relating to identification of third party payers for MinnesotaCare program eligibility purposes to include providing certain information about available group health plans, requiring enrollment in group health plans under certain conditions; requiring electronic verification of income under the MinnesotaCare program and expanding eligibility for families with children; modifying the sliding fee scale for premiums and exempting certain low income families with children and American Indian families from premium payment requirements; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to streamline and consolidate the public health care programs through merger, transfer or reconfiguration of existing health care programs for presentation to the legislature by a certain date and by a certain date to develop and implement a pilot project establishing coordinated enrollment for children determined eligible for medical assistance and the national school lunch program; requiring the commissioner to award grants to improve the quality of health care services provided to children, specifying certain priority requirements; requiring the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of health to evaluate the effects of certain legislative initiatives to increase the number of insured children and to make recommendations on other actions needed to provide coverage to all children by a certain date, requiring a commissioner of human services report to the legislature by a certain date on the effectiveness of state grants for outreach to improve preventive services for children enrolled in government health care programs; requiring the commissioner to develop an online application process for medical assistance, GAMC and the MinnesotaCare program for implementation by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of commerce in consultation with the commissioners of health, human services and revenue to develop recommendations for initiatives to encourage the purchase of private sector health care coverage for children ineligible for public programs, specifying certain recommendations requirements, requiring submission to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for outreach efforts, for the health care preventive services funding pool and for quality improvement grants (ra, ja)