2E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying the nursing home bed certification moratorium by prescribing payment rates for newly approved beds; modifying the nursing home rate for a relocated facilities in Norman, Wilkin, and Anoka counties; modifying certain human services licensing procedures; requiring a report to the legislature relating to goals and priorities involving persons with disabilities; delaying the date for new adult foster care license issuance; modifying certain family support program grant requirements; modifying the consumer report program; modifying certain personal care assistants program provisions; modifying certain reporting requirements; requiring the commissioner of human services to maintain a centralized database for collection of common entry point data and lead investigative agency data including maltreatment reporting; modifying older adult services community consortiums demonstration project provisions; modifying certain quality outcome standards requirements, excepting customized living services; requiring the commissioner to request all federal approvals and waiver amendments to disability home and community-based waivers; requiring service providers applying for medical assistance (MA) for private duty nursing to complete an hourly nursing determination matrix; repealing certain rate determinations for nursing facilities, certain alternative payment demonstration project provisions, the July 1, 2001 nursing facility reimbursement system, and voluntary closures planning

ARTICLE 2 - TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

Defining and conforming terms for new telecommunication technologies, modifying and clarifying commissioner of human services duties regarding telecommunications access program administration; authorizing the commissioner of commerce to contract with multiple vendors for telecommunications relay services (TRS); making conforming changes

ARTICLE 3 - COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND CASE MANAGEMENT REFORM

Modifying certain medical in-reach community-based service coordination requirements; modifying the medical assistance (MA) personal care assistance program definitions, covered services, who can conduct assessments, personal care assistance eligibility criteria, long-term care consultation and definitions, certified assessor eligibility requirements, assessor training and certification, the long-term care consultation team, assessment and support planning, transition assistance, alternate payment methodology, case management, requirements for individual care, elderly waiver case management services, screening team duties, and county concurrence; requiring coordinated service and support plans and case management services for home and community-based waiver recipients; making conforming changes; modifying claims against estates filing requirements; requiring a commissioner of human services legislative report relating to recommendations for further case management redesign and study of county and tribal administrative functions

ARTICLE 4 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring the commissioner of human services to develop a manual of diagnostic codes to be used to define child and adult mental illnesses for the statewide mental health system; removing a children's mental health collaborative requirement for a base level of expenditures continuance; making non-applicable the statute of limitations limiting commissioner power to recover cost of care; modifying commissioner authority regarding federal revenue enhancement for the family services collaborative; requiring the commissioner to conduct a comprehensive terminology audit relating to individuals with disabilities and report to the legislature

ARTICLE 5 - HEALTH CARE

Excluding from the medical assistance (MA) asset limitations for individuals and families certain American Indian owned assets and premiums payment; modifying a period of ineligibility elimination condition for long-term care services; requiring the commissioner of human services to publish a list of active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients in the MA formulary; regulating over-the-counter dispensation quantity; modifying pharmacist license requirements for MA reimbursement; removing the eyeglasses cost-sharing allowance; adding a co-payment and deductible exception for fee-for-service payments subject to volume purchase through competitive bidding; modifying certain prepaid health plan provisions relating to prospective per capita payments and managed care contracts, modifying the managed care withhold for emergency room utilization rate reduction; allowing the commissioner to contract with demonstration providers and current or former sponsors of qualified Medicare approved special needs plans; modifying managed care plan rate setting performance withholds provisions; modifying the content requirement of MA liens; repealing protections for American Indians

ARTICLE 6 - TECHNICAL

Making certain technical changes relating to the moratorium on certification of nursing home beds; revisor's instructions
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