Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                        CHAPTER 271--S.F.No. 253
           An act relating to public welfare; retroactively 
          exempting certain health maintenance organizations 
          from the four percent medical assistance payment 
          reduction. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [EXEMPTION.] 
    The commissioner of public welfare shall not apply the 
provisions of Laws 1982, Third Special Session chapter 1, 
article II, section 2, subdivision 4, clause (a)(4), to any 
medical assistance vendor that has a risk-based contract with 
the commissioner, in effect at any time between January 1, 1983, 
and June 30, 1983, under which payment is made on a prospective 
capitation basis.  
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment 
and applies retroactively and prospectively to payments for the 
period January 1 to June 30, 1983, to vendors described in 
section 1. 
    Approved June 6, 1983