Minnesota Session Laws - 1995, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 135-H.F.No. 1602 
                  An act relating to health; establishing provisions for 
                  mobile health care providers; proposing coding for new 
                  law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [144.077] [MOBILE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.] 
           Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITION.] "Mobile health evaluation and 
        screening provider" means any provider who is transported in a 
        vehicle mounted unit, either motorized or trailered, and readily 
        movable without disassembling, and who regularly provides 
        evaluation and screening services in more than one geographic 
        location.  "Mobile health evaluation and screening provider" 
        does not include any ambulance medical transportation type 
        services or any mobile health service provider affiliated, owned 
        and operated, or under contract with a licensed health care 
        facility or provider, managed care entity licensed under chapter 
        62D or 62N or Minnesota licensed physician or dentist, nor does 
        it include fixed location providers who transfer or move during 
        the calendar year.  All mobile health evaluation and screening 
        providers must be directly supervised by a physician licensed 
        under chapter 147. 
           Subd. 2.  [LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS.] A mobile health 
        evaluation and screening provider shall be required to comply 
        with all licensing reporting and certification, sanitation, and 
        other requirements and regulations that apply to a health care 
        provider supplying similar services as a fixed location 
        provider.  A mobile health evaluation and screening provider 
        shall be subject to regulation and order of the department of 
        health. 
           Subd. 3.  [REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.] A mobile health 
        evaluation and screening provider shall register with the 
        commissioner and file the anticipated locations of practice, 
        schedules, and routes annually no later than January 15.  The 
        mobile health evaluation and screening provider shall also 
        include the name and address of the supervising physician.  A 
        mobile health evaluation and screening provider shall provide at 
        least 30 days' written notice to the populations they intend to 
        serve. 
           Presented to the governor May 5, 1995 
           Signed by the governor May 8, 1995, 3:45 p.m.