Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF2337

2E Relating to government finance; appropriating and transferring money and
supplementing or reducing appropriations for the departments of health, human
services, veterans affairs, corrections and commerce, health-related boards, the
emergency medical services board and the university of Minnesota; establishing,
regulating or modifying certain department of human services health care
services programs, continuing care services, children and family services and
department of health provisions

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH CARE

Modifying certain
state health care, medical assistance (MA) for needy persons and MinnesotaCare
program provisions administered by the department of human services; modifying
certain provider charges and payment rates, MA eligibility requirements, covered
services and MA co-payments; authorizing certain care coordination payment
system qualification efforts; developing a health care delivery systems
demonstration project; modifying prepaid health plans, physician and dental
reimbursements, and reimbursement for basic care services; modifying certain
MinnesotaCare covered health services and managed care provisions; clarifying
the asthma medical assistance demonstration project; extending the state subsidy
for COBRA federal subsidy eligibility; modifying COBRA subsidies; specifying
certain duties of the commissioner; repealing the general assistance medical
care (GAMC) program

ARTICLE 2 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying certain housing
with services establishments provisions; modifying license surcharges for
nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for persons with mental
retardation (ICF/MR); modifying the personal care assistance program and certain
long-term care consultation services requirements; modifying certain provisions
relating to medicaid waivers for elderly services and home and community-based
service waivers for disabled; modifying the value-based nursing facility
reimbursement system; increasing certain ICF/MR payment rates; and ceasing the
Minnesota disability health options (MnDHO) program

ARTICLE 3 - CHILDREN AND
FAMILY SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES LICENSING

Modifying certain
provisions relating to the department of human services background studies act;
modifying food stamp income and asset limits; modifying and clarifying certain
Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) provisions

ARTICLE 4 - DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH

Specifying certain health maintenance organization (HMO) reporting
duties; establishing the advisory group on administrative expenses; specifying
certain academic health center education funding requirements; establishing an
additional surcharge for certified birth records; transferring responsibility
for the comprehensive advanced life support educational program; clarifying
certain food and beverage fees for youth camps; clarifying certain fees for
manufactured home parks and recreational camping areas; providing for reporting
requirements for health plans and county based purchasing plans

ARTICLE 5 -
GENERAL ASSISTANCE MEDICAL CARE AMENDMENTS

Clarifying and modifying certain
general assistance medical care (GAMC) program provisions; updating certain
language and removing references; providing a special revenue fund transfer;
modifying certain funding provisions

ARTICLE 6 - MISCELLANEOUS

Providing
coverage for private duty nursing services; establishing the Minnesota couples
on the brink project; modifying provisions relating to advanced dental
therapists and the controlled substances prescription electronic reporting
system; establishing a state operated services account in the special revenue
fund; modifying certain chemical dependency treatment provisions; modifying a
prior provision relating to the Anoka-Metro regional treatment center; requiring
the commissioner of human services to provide certain case management
recommendations; requiring a veterinary practice and controlled substance abuse
study; repealing

ARTICLE 7 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
APPROPRIATIONS

Summarizing health and human services appropriations, by
fund

ARTICLE 8 - HUMAN SERVICES FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Adjusting
appropriations from various funds for fiscal years 2010 and 2011
(je)