Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0984

1E Relating to human services; modifying programs and services for persons with
disabilities; requiring the commissioner of human services to consult with
private sector health plan companies to develop and implement by a certain date
an incentive program to encourage medical assistance (MA) enrollees with
disabilities to obtain regular wellness exams; modifying the asset limits and
the excess income standard for the aged, blind or disabled for medical
assistance eligibility purposes, assets owned by children not to be considered;
expanding the provision requiring commissioner reimbursement to medical
assistance employed enrollees with disabilities for medicare part B premiums and
providing for the counting as income of increases in benefits under title II of
the social security act; modifying the formula for allocation of income to
institutionalized persons; expanding the definition of relocation targeted case
management to service coordination services and making targeted case management
services specific to counties for medical assistance coverage purposes and
delaying the date for coverage of home care targeted case management services;
specifying certain qualifications for relocation service coordination providers
and expanding the qualification requirements for home care targeted case
management providers; clarifying certain eligible services; requiring the
commissioner to execute a data use agreement with the center for medicare and
medicaid services to obtain long term care minimum data set data to assist
residents of nursing facilities indicating a desire to live in the community,
requiring in turn agreements with the centers for independent living and other
disability advocacy organizations to assist in moves to the community setting
and notice by the commissioner to medical assistance eligible persons residing
in institutions of the availability of relocation targeted case management
services; clarifying the definition of intensive nonresidential rehabilitative
mental health services for coverage purposes; eliminating the limits on medical
assistance, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare coverage
for dental services; providing a transitional supports allowance for persons
under home and community based waivers moving from licensed to community
settings, specifying certain covered costs; expanding the availability of case
management services for persons with mental retardation or related conditions,
providing for service coordination; increasing the personal needs allowance
under medical assistance for persons in skilled nursing homes or intermediate
care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions;
providing for county case management and service coordination services for
chronically ill children and disabled persons under home and community based
waivers and providing a transitional supports allowance for certain costs;
increasing the intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation
or related conditions (ICF/MR) medical assistance operating cost reimbursement
rate and the payment rate for certain waivered services providers to be used to
increase employee salaries and benefits and associated costs; requiring the
commissioner to seek federal approval to expand the Minnesota disability health
options (MnDHO) program in stages and to request approval and plan amendments
necessary to implement the transitional supports allowances and the choice of
case management services coordination and to study access to dental services for
persons with disabilities and present recommendations to the legislature by a
certain date, specifying certain study requirements; requiring the commissioners
of human services and housing finance (HFA) and the state council on disability
to convene an interagency work group to identify barriers, strengthen
coordination, recommend policy and funding changes and pursue federal financing
to assist persons with disabilities in relocating from or avoiding placement in
institutional settings, specifying certain required activities and requiring
recommendations to state agencies and the legislature by a certain date
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