SF 1966 Senate Long Description
E Relating to health; extending the expiration date of the medical education research and advisory committee; limiting the responsibility of health insurers to provide major medical coverage to applicants for new unqualified policies under the Minnesota comprehensive health insurance act (MCHA), imposing a lifetime benefit limit; defining uniform explanation of benefits document and uniform remittance advice report and modifying certain uniform billing requirements under the health care administrative simplification act; prescribing standards for Minnesota uniform health care reimbursement documents; providing an exception from the health care identification card requirement; extending the expiration date of the medical education and research trust fund advisory committee and shortening the life of the health care consumer advisory board; requiring health plan companies executive compensation disclosure to the commissioner of health in lieu of the board; providing for the allocation of federal maternal and child health block grant money to community health boards, requiring review by the maternal and child health advisory task force and modifying certain authorized uses of the money; clarifying the registration requirement for speech language pathologists and audiologists and modifying certain training requirements, providing for temporary registration of certain applicants; expanding the exclusions from the definition of unlicensed mental health practitioner, prohibiting the practitioners from bartering for services with clients and requiring practitioners subject to investigation to sign a release authorizing the commissioner of health to obtain certain data; modifying the definition of accredited school or educational program and certain core functions and practice requirements of alcohol and drug counselors, modifying certain duties of the commissioner, providing temporary practice requirements, modifying certain licensure qualification requirements and grounds for disciplinary action and clarifying certain background check requirements; modifying certain requirements for certification of hearing aid dispensers and certain authority of trainees, providing for reciprocal certification and restricting the dispensing of hearing instruments to minors; repealing certain provisions providing for allocation of maternal and child health block grants to community health services areas and specifying certain additional licensing requirements for alcohol and drug counselors (mk, ja)