Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2381

E Providing for the regulation of hospice providers by the commissioner of
health separately from home care providers; providing a hospice bill of rights
for the benefit of individuals receiving hospice care, providing for
enforcement; requiring a copy of the rights to be provided to individuals at the
time of hospice care initiation, requiring the copy to contain the addresses and
telephone numbers of the office of health facility complaints and the office of
ombudsman for older Minnesotans; requiring the commissioner to adopt rules for
the regulation of hospice providers, specifying certain rule requirements and
certain regulatory functions of the commissioner; specifying the relationship to
other regulatory programs; prohibiting the use of certification by the federal
medicare program as a requirement of medicaid payment for room and board
services delivered in residential hospice facilities; requiring and providing
for the licensure of hospice providers by the commissioner, specifying certain
requirements for licensure, certain application acknowledgment requirements of
the commissioner and certain background check requirements, specifying the
license fees; granting the commissioner certain enforcement authority including
license denial, suspension or revocation, specifying certain advance notice
requirements, authorizing and providing for provider requests for stay under
certain conditions, specifying certain factors to be considered by the
commissioner in granting a stay, providing for injunctive relief and for the
issuance of subpoenas, imposing a time limit for appeal; requiring the
commissioner to ensure the availability of hospice care information referral
services throughout the state; imposing a penalty for violation of the license
requirements by persons involved in the management, operation or control of
hospice providers; repealing the provision requiring licensure of hospice
programs under home care licensure requirements upon adoption by the
commissioner of rules regulating hospice providers (je, ja)