Relating to technical health and human services changes

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TECHNICAL

Making technical and clarifying changes to health and human services provisions

ARTICLE 2 - TECHNICAL APPROPRIATION CHANGES

Making technical changes to department of human services (DHS) available funding and appropriations

ARTICLE 3 - HEALTH CARE ELIGIBILITY

Placing the ombudsman program and commissioner of human services (DHS) duties with the integrated fund task force and the coordinated service delivery system for disabled under the prepayment demonstration project; requiring commissioner of public safety to supply commissioner of human services with traffic accident information for compliance purposes and clarifying DHS information request cooperation; specifying a medical assistance (MA) tax-exempt gift income disregard for families eligibility determination, modifying MA family asset limitations; establishing the drug utilization review board, specifying membership and staffing, requiring commissioner to implement a medical assistance (MA) retrospective and prospective drug utilization review program, authorizing commissioner of human services (DHS) to develop centers of excellence for complex medical procedures; modifying MA intergovernmental transfers, increasing payments to Hennepin and Ramsey counties, exempting contracts between commissioner and a prepaid health plan from set-aside and preference provisions, requiring annual payments, modifying general assistance
medical care (GAMC) application, modifying MinnesotaCare gross individual or gross family income, family co-payments and the premium scale gross family income percentage of federal poverty guidelines; providing for MA liens enforcement or claim against real property in transfer on death deed in probate or district court; repealing prepaid health plans and the definition of gross individual or gross family income and certain laws relating to MA excess income, individuals on fixed or excluded incomes and individuals with low income
(Ch. 173, 2009)