1E Relating to human services; modifying programs and services for persons with disabilities; 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, assets owned by children not to be considered; 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; expanding the definition of relocation targeted case management to service coordination services and making targeted case management services specific to counties for medical assistance coverage purposes and delaying the date for coverage of home care targeted case management services; specifying certain qualifications for relocation service coordination providers and expanding the qualification requirements for home care targeted case management providers; clarifying certain eligible services; requiring the commissioner to execute a data use agreement with the center for medicare and medicaid services to obtain long term care minimum data set data to assist residents of nursing facilities indicating a desire to live in the community, requiring in turn agreements with the centers for independent living and other disability advocacy organizations to assist in moves to the community setting and notice by the commissioner to medical assistance eligible persons residing in institutions of the availability of relocation targeted case management services; clarifying the definition of intensive nonresidential rehabilitative mental health services for coverage purposes; 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, providing for service coordination; 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 county case management and service coordination services for chronically ill children and disabled persons under home and community based waivers and providing a transitional supports allowance for certain costs; increasing the intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions (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 and to study access to dental services for persons with disabilities and present recommendations to the legislature by a certain date, specifying certain study requirements; requiring the commissioners of human services and housing finance (HFA) and the state council on disability to convene an interagency work group to identify barriers, strengthen coordination, recommend policy and funding changes and pursue federal financing to assist persons with disabilities in relocating from or avoiding placement in institutional settings, specifying certain required activities and requiring recommendations to state agencies and the legislature by a certain date
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