Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF2203

1E Relating to human services; making certain technical changes

ARTICLE 1 -
CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring counties to ensure mental health
screening for children receiving certain county services unless a diagnostic
assessment has been performed; eliminating certain rules relating to chemical
dependency care; modifying chemical dependency treatment allocations reserved
for Native American tribes; modifying the administrative adjustment of the
chemical dependency allocation process; modifying payment process for counties
paying their share of chemical dependency treatment costs; modifying billing
procedure for children's therapeutic services and supports; requiring providers
to bill only for direct service time


ARTICLE 2 - CONTINUING CARE


Eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of human services and local
agencies to jointly develop an implementation plan under the consumer support
program; modifying the definitions of informed choice and supports; changing the
name of the office of ombudsman for older Minnesotans to ombudsman for long term
care; modifying certain screening requirements for long term care consultation
services; clarifying certain eligibility requirements for nonmedical assistance
recipients under the alternative care program; modifying services covered under
the alternative care program; changing the entities working with the alternative
care program from counties to lead agencies; changing the date the commissioner
of human services must inform nursing facilities of the following years medical
assistance rate changes; extending an alternative care pilot project

ARTICLE 3
- HEALTH CARE

Modifying medical assistance (MA) coverage for certain hospital
emergency room visits; limiting the coverage under general assistance medical
care (GAMC) for prescription drugs meeting certain requirements; modifying
income requirements for MinnesotaCare eligibility

ARTICLE 4 - MISCELLANEOUS


Repealing certain obsolete provisions; specifying instructions to the revisor
of statuses; requiring the commissioner of administration to publish adopted
rules in the state register; repealing miscellaneous provisions
(rt)