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SF 3126 Senate Long Description

E Making technical changes in certain health care and human services programs provisions; clarifying the format for informed consent for the release of private data under the government data practices act; eliminating the rulemaking requirement of the commissioner of human services relating to regional treatment center mental health and support units staff safety training; modifying a certain provision requiring the commissioner to bill health plans for medically necessary hospitalizations of committed individuals, requiring billing of the health plan first and restricting county cost responsibility to hospitalizations not meeting certain mental health coverage criteria; authorizing the commissioner to reduce the types of hospital admissions requiring certification as medically necessary for medical assistance (MA) and general assistance medical care (GAMC) inpatient hospital payment rates determination purposes after notice in the state register and a certain comment period; requiring full payment of medical assistance costs by counties; requiring reduction of charges submitted for medical assistance payment to reflect discounts applied to the charges; clarifying and modifying certain requirements for medical assistance coverage of organ and tissue transplants; eliminating the meeting and reporting frequency requirements for the advisory committee on organ and tissue transplants; expanding a certain provision requiring county boards under medical assistance county based purchasing provisions to ensure the implementation and operation of the Minnesota senior health options demonstration project to the Minnesota disability health options demonstration project and to counties outside the metropolitan area; modifying the time limit for receipt of the initial premium under the MinnesotaCare program, specifying the premium crediting procedure and expanding the health coverage exemption from the health coverage restriction for eligibility purposes; removing a certain prior repeal of a provision providing medical assistance eligibility for Minnesota family investment plan (MFIP) participants opting to discontinue monthly cash assistance; specifying certain term replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions providing for state payment of certain county agency costs, the annual reporting requirement of the commissioner relating to the coordinated service delivery system for people with disabilities and a certain provision providing the source of funding for pregnant women and certain children under MinnesotaCare (ra, ja)