1E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - REHABILITATION TECHNICAL

Making effective date changes

ARTICLE 2 - PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANCE SERVICES

Making changes to the medical assistance (MA) personal care assistance program by modifying notice of service changes to recipients

ARTICLE 3 - FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES

Modifying the medical assistance (MA) income standards minimum adjustment for families with children

ARTICLE 4 - CLARIFICATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGE IN ARRA

Clarifying Indian (native American) assets exclusion, medical assistance (MA) premium payment exemption, and MinnesotaCare coverage and premium waiver to conform with the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA); repealing commissioner of human services protections for American Indians federal compliance requirements

ARTICLE 5 - ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS

Defining active pharmaceutical ingredients and modifying medical assistance (MA) drug formulary provisions

ARTICLE 6 - MINIMUM QUANTITY OF OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS

Specifying over-the-counter medications quantity dispensing allowed units under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 7 - AMBULANCE REIMBURSEMENT

Defining how providers should bill ambulance services and requiring use of diagnosis codes and updated diagnosis codes and web availability under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 8 - HOSPICE AGE

Conforming medical assistance (MA) hospice care to federal code and lowering the age of recipient

ARTICLE 9 - DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT DEFINITION AND ACCREDITATION FOR SUPPLIERS

Requiring durable medical equipment vendors to enroll as medical assistance (MA) providers and allowing the commissioner to authorize exceptions to enrollment requirement

ARTICLE 10- ELIMINATE ELDERLY WAIVER PAYMENT

Eliminating the medical assistance (MA) elderly waiver services payments

ARTICLE 11 - SPECIAL NEEDS BASIC CARE MEDICAID SERVICES

Allowing the commissioner of human services to contract with demonstration providers and sponsors of qualified Medicare-approved special needs plans under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 12- HEALTH SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL

Requiring the revisor of statutes to change the term health services policy committee to health services advisory council

ARTICLE 13 - COMMUNITY CLINICS

Changing the definition of medical assistance (MA) nonprofit community clinics and critical access dental providers to not limit certain state health care program patients

ARTICLE 14 - DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL PAYMENTS UNDER MINNESOTACARE

Requiring the commissioner of human services under the medical assistance (MA) program to apply for additional federal matching funds as available as disproportionate share hospital payments under the MinnesotaCare program; excluding chemical dependency hospital-based and residential treatment from inpatient services payments for MinnesotaCare enrollees 18 and older

ARTICLE 15 - NONEMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION

Requiring the commissioner of human services to establish a nonemergency medical transportation advisory committee under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 16 - MANAGED CARE REPORTING

Requiring managed care financial reporting
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