Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: HF0802

HF 802 THIRD ENGROSSMENT

Article 1 General Assistance Medical
Care

Section 1. Mental health urgent care and psychiatric consultation
services included in re-design of behavioral health hospitals and Anoka-Metro
Regional Treatment Center, and terms defined.

Section 2. Payments date
changed.

Section 3. Quarterly payment adjustment provisions
modified.

Section 4. Prior authorization of drugs exemption
provided.

Section 5. Antipsychotic and attention deficit disorder and
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications regulations provided for
pediatric patients.

Section 6. Refusal of care to general assistance medical
care patients prohibited by hospitals or providers in a coordinated care
delivery system.

Section 7. Scope date of medical assistance
extended.

Section 8. Hennepin County and Ramsey County intergovernmental
transfers provisions modified, and medical assistance capitation payments
provisions modified.

Section 9. Federal approval required to expand
definition of eligible nonstate government hospitals in intergovernmental
transfers program, and inpatient hospital payments provisions
modified.

Section 10. Ombudsperson designation required to advocate for
persons enrolled in a coordinated care delivery system.

Section 11. General
assistance medical care prescription drug eligibility provisions
modified.

Section 12. General assistance medical care eligibility provisions
modified, ineligible groups defined, enrollment procedures described, services
described, payment rates and contracts modified, coordinated care delivery
system hospitals contract provisions and requirements provided, rate set,
temporary uncompensated care pool established, prescription drug pool
established, and assistance for veterans provided.

Section 13. Effective
date of coverage modified.

Section 14. Renewal of eligibility provisions
modified.

Section 15. General assistance medical care retroactive coverage
provisions modified.

Section 16. Marriage license fee disposition provisions
modified.

Section 17. Drug rebate program administration continued for
general assistance medical care eligible persons.

Section 18. Transitional
MinnesotaCare phaseout provisions modified.

Section 19. Certain Minnesota
statutes edited to remove references to the general assistance medical care
program.

Section 20. Statutes repealed.

Article 2
Appropriations

Section 1. Human services appropriations provided for 2010
and 2011.

Section 2. Human services general and health care access fund
appropriations provided.
Subd 2. Children support enforcement grants funding
provided.
Subd 3. Children and economic assistance operations funding
provided.
Subd 4. Basic health care grants funding provided for
MinnesotaCare, Medical
Assistance basic health care, and General
Assistance Medical Care.
Subd 5. Health care management funding provided and
health care administration base
reduced.
Subd 6. Continuing care grants
funding provided.
a) Mental health grants provided.
b) HIV grants
provided.
Subd 7. Continuing care management funding provided.
Subd 8. Onetime
transfer from health care access fund to the general fund provided, and transfer
from consolidated chemical dependency fund to the general fund provided.