1E Authorizing the commissioner of human services to engage in competitive bidding for medical assistance (MA) nonemergency medical transportation level of need determinations and disbursements, prohibiting the commissioner from utilizing volume purchases through competitive bidding and negotiation for special transportation services; requiring health care professional determination of level of need nonemergency medical transportation; extending covered services transportation costs to skilled nursing facility residents; specifying special transportation provider route directives; modifying reimbursement rates
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