1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to medical assistance; directing the commissioner of human services to 
1.3 	develop a covered benefit for integrated health services; creating a demonstration 
1.4 	project; requiring a report; appropriating money.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. DIRECTION TO COMMISSIONER; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 
1.7 	INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICES.
 1.8 		Subdivision 1.Develop covered benefit; integrated health services. (a) The 
1.9 	commissioner of human services shall develop a covered benefit under medical assistance 
1.10 	for integrated health services. The integrated health services must operationalize the National 
1.11 	Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS), as defined by 
1.12 	the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and comply with Clubhouse 
1.13 	International Standards, including through the obtaining of accreditation by Clubhouse 
1.14 	International.
1.15 	(b) No later than October 1, 2026, the commissioner of human services must submit to 
1.16 	the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction 
1.17 	over health and human services policy and finance a report detailing, for the integrated 
1.18 	health services medical assistance benefit under paragraph (a), the proposed:
1.19 	(1) eligibility, clinical and service requirements, provider standards, licensing and 
1.20 	accreditation requirements, and reimbursement rates;
1.21 	(2) deadline for the commissioner to submit a state plan amendment to the Centers for 
1.22 	Medicare and Medicaid Services; and
2.1 	(3) draft legislation with the statutory changes necessary to implement the benefit.
2.2 		Subd. 2.Establish demonstration project; integrated health services. (a) The 
2.3 	commissioner of human services shall establish a demonstration project to develop and 
2.4 	evaluate an integrated health services model of care for the covered benefit described in 
2.5 	subdivision 1. The demonstration project expires on January 1, 2028.
2.6 	(b) Eligible sites for the demonstration project are limited to those that are accredited 
2.7 	or seeking accreditation by Clubhouse International for compliance with the Clubhouse 
2.8 	International Standards.
2.9 	(c) The commissioner of human services shall award at least $300,000 per site to at least 
2.10 	three eligible sites for the purposes of the demonstration project. At least one of the sites 
2.11 	must be located in rural Minnesota. Entities may use the money for either or both of:
2.12 	(1) the establishment or expansion of an integrated health services model of care; and
2.13 	(2) providing services to enrollees who are not entitled to full coverage for such services 
2.14 	from other insurance or payment sources.

2.15 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.16 	$4,500,000 in fiscal year 2025 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
2.17 	of human services for the purposes of section 1. This is a onetime appropriation and is 
2.18 	available until December 31, 2027.