1E Relating to human services; making certain technical changes

ARTICLE 1 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring counties to ensure mental health screening for children receiving certain county services unless a diagnostic assessment has been performed; eliminating certain rules relating to chemical dependency care; modifying chemical dependency treatment allocations reserved for Native American tribes; modifying the administrative adjustment of the chemical dependency allocation process; modifying payment process for counties paying their share of chemical dependency treatment costs; modifying billing procedure for children's therapeutic services and supports; requiring providers to bill only for direct service time

ARTICLE 2 - CONTINUING CARE

Eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of human services and local agencies to jointly develop an implementation plan under the consumer support program; modifying the definitions of informed choice and supports; changing the name of the office of ombudsman for older Minnesotans to ombudsman for long term care; modifying certain screening requirements for long term care consultation services; clarifying certain eligibility requirements for nonmedical assistance recipients under the alternative care program; modifying services covered under the alternative care program; changing the entities working with the alternative care program from counties to lead agencies; changing the date the commissioner of human services must inform nursing facilities of the following years medical assistance rate changes; extending an alternative care pilot project

ARTICLE 3 - HEALTH CARE

Modifying medical assistance (MA) coverage for certain hospital emergency room visits; limiting the coverage under general assistance medical care (GAMC) for prescription drugs meeting certain requirements; modifying income requirements for MinnesotaCare eligibility

ARTICLE 4 - MISCELLANEOUS

Repealing certain obsolete provisions; specifying instructions to the revisor of statuses; requiring the commissioner of administration to publish adopted rules in the state register; repealing miscellaneous provisions
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