Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0944

E Modifying certain provisions providing for medical assistance (MA ) coverage
for special education health related services; updating school district
obligations to federal law by reference; requiring individual education plan
teams to consider and authorizing the teams to authorize services covered by
medical assistance; requiring school districts to pay the nonfederal share of
medical assistance services, prohibiting expenditures from federal funds,
federal disallowances to be the responsibility of the school district; requiring
the commissioner of health and the health related licensing boards to coordinate
with the board of teaching in modifying licensure requirements for regulated
persons for consistency purposes; modifying covered services; requiring the
commissioner of human services to implement package, bundled and per diem rates
for special education services for grouping purposes and to develop a cost based
payment structure for payment of the services; medical assistance services
provided under education or service plans by local school districts not to count
against medical assistance authorization thresholds for the child; requiring the
commissioner to amend the federal waiver allowing the state to separate out
individual education and family service plan services for children enrolled in
the prepaid medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs, providing for payment
on a fee for service basis upon approval; requiring the commissioner to examine
opportunities to expand the scope of providers eligible for reimbursement for
medical assistance services listed in individual education plans based on state
and federal requirements for provider qualifications, requiring completion by a
certain date in consultation with the commissioner of children, families and
learning and the seeking of necessary federal approval(rla, ja)