Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0903

Modifying and expanding mental health services funding provisions for medical
assistance (MA) coverage, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and
MinnesotaCare; increasing rates for children's therapeutic services and support
services; defining family psychoeducation; modifying diagnostic assessment
reimbursement rates; including rehabilitative mental health services in family
psychoeducation, coordination and care management and collateral contacts;
modifying payments for mental health services, mental health provider travel
time and mental health telemedicine; adding intensive mental health outpatient
treatment, care management, collateral contracts and mental health services dual
eligible clients as covered services; modifying provisions relating to
children's therapeutic services and supports; including providers of individual
and group skills training, individual and group psychotherapy, diagnostic
assessments and other services; providing for a dual diagnosis demonstration
project for high risk adults; requiring the commissioner to make a onetime
consultation with stakeholder groups and make budget neutral MA coverage changes
to implement evidence based practices; requiring the commissioner of human
services to increase certain reimbursement rates; requiring the commissioner of
administration in consultation with the commissioner of human services to
provide televideo conferencing; appropriating money to the commissioner of human
services for community mental health programs, dual diagnosis demonstration
project and telehealth
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