Relating to human services; modifying programs and services for persons with disabilities; modifying certain parental contribution amounts toward the costs of services to children with mental retardation, providing for a sliding fee scale for certain parents; establishing the disability services coordination commission for input on planning and monitoring the services, programs and funding aimed at helping people with disabilities live in independent settings, specifying certain commission objectives, membership requirements and duties,
requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the
commissioner of human services to consult with private sector health plan
companies to develop and implement by a certain date an incentive program to encourage medical assistance (MA) enrollees with disabilities to obtain regular wellness exams; modifying the asset limits and the excess income standard for the aged, blind or disabled for medical assistance eligibility purposes; expanding the provision requiring commissioner reimbursement to medical assistance employed enrollees with disabilities for medicare part B premiums and providing for the counting as income of increases in benefits under title II of the social security act; modifying the formula for allocation of income to institutionalized persons; requiring the commissioner to ensure a choice of
county and private agency relocation targeted case management service providers and requiring full disclosure to recipients of certain conflicts of interest; targeted relocation case management administrative activities to be the responsibility of the county or the agency under contract, enumerating the activities included and specifying certain institutionalized persons services availability notice requirements; eliminating the limits on medical assistance, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare coverage for dental services; providing a transitional supports allowance for persons under home and community based waivers moving from licensed to community settings, specifying
certain covered costs; expanding the availability of case management services for persons with mental retardation or related conditions; increasing the personal needs allowance under medical assistance for persons in skilled nursing homes or intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions; providing for case management service coordination and administrative activities for chronically ill children and disabled persons under home and community based waivers and providing a transitional supports allowance for certain costs; increasing the ICF/MR medical assistance operating cost reimbursement rate and the payment rate for certain waivered services
providers to be used to increase employee salaries and benefits and associated costs; requiring the commissioner to seek federal approval to expand the Minnesota disability health options (MnDHO) program in stages and to request approval and plan amendments necessary to implement the transitional supports allowances and the choice of case management services coordination
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