Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1284

1E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - REHABILITATION TECHNICAL

Making
effective date changes

ARTICLE 2 - PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANCE
SERVICES

Making changes to the medical assistance (MA) personal care
assistance program by modifying notice of service changes to
recipients

ARTICLE 3 - FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES

Modifying the medical
assistance (MA) income standards minimum adjustment for families with
children

ARTICLE 4 - CLARIFICATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGE IN
ARRA

Clarifying Indian (native American) assets exclusion, medical assistance
(MA) premium payment exemption, and MinnesotaCare coverage and premium waiver to
conform with the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA);
repealing commissioner of human services protections for American Indians
federal compliance requirements

ARTICLE 5 - ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL
INGREDIENTS

Defining active pharmaceutical ingredients and modifying medical
assistance (MA) drug formulary provisions

ARTICLE 6 - MINIMUM QUANTITY OF
OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS

Specifying over-the-counter medications quantity
dispensing allowed units under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 7 - AMBULANCE
REIMBURSEMENT

Defining how providers should bill ambulance services and
requiring use of diagnosis codes and updated diagnosis codes and web
availability under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 8 - HOSPICE
AGE

Conforming medical assistance (MA) hospice care to federal code and
lowering the age of recipient

ARTICLE 9 - DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
DEFINITION AND ACCREDITATION FOR SUPPLIERS

Requiring durable medical
equipment vendors to enroll as medical assistance (MA) providers and allowing
the commissioner to authorize exceptions to enrollment requirement

ARTICLE
10- ELIMINATE ELDERLY WAIVER PAYMENT

Eliminating the medical assistance (MA)
elderly waiver services payments

ARTICLE 11 - SPECIAL NEEDS BASIC CARE
MEDICAID SERVICES

Allowing the commissioner of human services to contract
with demonstration providers and sponsors of qualified Medicare-approved special
needs plans under medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 12- HEALTH SERVICES
ADVISORY COUNCIL

Requiring the revisor of statutes to change the term health
services policy committee to health services advisory council

ARTICLE 13 -
COMMUNITY CLINICS

Changing the definition of medical assistance (MA)
nonprofit community clinics and critical access dental providers to not limit
certain state health care program patients

ARTICLE 14 - DISPROPORTIONATE
SHARE HOSPITAL PAYMENTS UNDER MINNESOTACARE

Requiring the commissioner of
human services under the medical assistance (MA) program to apply for additional
federal matching funds as available as disproportionate share hospital payments
under the MinnesotaCare program; excluding chemical dependency hospital-based
and residential treatment from inpatient services payments for MinnesotaCare
enrollees 18 and older

ARTICLE 15 - NONEMERGENCY MEDICAL
TRANSPORTATION

Requiring the commissioner of human services to establish a
nonemergency medical transportation advisory committee under medical assistance
(MA)

ARTICLE 16 - MANAGED CARE REPORTING

Requiring managed care financial
reporting
(rt)