Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1804

2E Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying the
nursing home bed certification moratorium by prescribing payment rates for newly
approved beds; modifying the nursing home rate for a relocated facilities in
Norman, Wilkin, and Anoka counties; modifying certain human services licensing
procedures; requiring a report to the legislature relating to goals and
priorities involving persons with disabilities; delaying the date for new adult
foster care license issuance; modifying certain family support program grant
requirements; modifying the consumer report program; modifying certain personal
care assistants program provisions; modifying certain reporting requirements;
requiring the commissioner of human services to maintain a centralized database
for collection of common entry point data and lead investigative agency data
including maltreatment reporting; modifying older adult services community
consortiums demonstration project provisions; modifying certain quality outcome
standards requirements, excepting customized living services; requiring the
commissioner to request all federal approvals and waiver amendments to
disability home and community-based waivers; requiring service providers
applying for medical assistance (MA) for private duty nursing to complete an
hourly nursing determination matrix; repealing certain rate determinations for
nursing facilities, certain alternative payment demonstration project
provisions, the July 1, 2001 nursing facility reimbursement system, and
voluntary closures planning

ARTICLE 2 - TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT
PROGRAM

Defining and conforming terms for new telecommunication technologies,
modifying and clarifying commissioner of human services duties regarding
telecommunications access program administration; authorizing the commissioner
of commerce to contract with multiple vendors for telecommunications relay
services (TRS); making conforming changes

ARTICLE 3 - COMPREHENSIVE
ASSESSMENT AND CASE MANAGEMENT REFORM

Modifying certain medical in-reach
community-based service coordination requirements; modifying the medical
assistance (MA) personal care assistance program definitions, covered services,
who can conduct assessments, personal care assistance eligibility criteria,
long-term care consultation and definitions, certified assessor eligibility
requirements, assessor training and certification, the long-term care
consultation team, assessment and support planning, transition assistance,
alternate payment methodology, case management, requirements for individual
care, elderly waiver case management services, screening team duties, and county
concurrence; requiring coordinated service and support plans and case management
services for home and community-based waiver recipients; making conforming
changes; modifying claims against estates filing requirements; requiring a
commissioner of human services legislative report relating to recommendations
for further case management redesign and study of county and tribal
administrative functions

ARTICLE 4 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring
the commissioner of human services to develop a manual of diagnostic codes to be
used to define child and adult mental illnesses for the statewide mental health
system; removing a children's mental health collaborative requirement for a base
level of expenditures continuance; making non-applicable the statute of
limitations limiting commissioner power to recover cost of care; modifying
commissioner authority regarding federal revenue enhancement for the family
services collaborative; requiring the commissioner to conduct a comprehensive
terminology audit relating to individuals with disabilities and report to the
legislature

ARTICLE 5 - HEALTH CARE

Excluding from the medical assistance
(MA) asset limitations for individuals and families certain American Indian
owned assets and premiums payment; modifying a period of ineligibility
elimination condition for long-term care services; requiring the commissioner of
human services to publish a list of active pharmaceutical ingredients and
excipients in the MA formulary; regulating over-the-counter dispensation
quantity; modifying pharmacist license requirements for MA reimbursement;
removing the eyeglasses cost-sharing allowance; adding a co-payment and
deductible exception for fee-for-service payments subject to volume purchase
through competitive bidding; modifying certain prepaid health plan provisions
relating to prospective per capita payments and managed care contracts,
modifying the managed care withhold for emergency room utilization rate
reduction; allowing the commissioner to contract with demonstration providers
and current or former sponsors of qualified Medicare approved special needs
plans; modifying managed care plan rate setting performance withholds
provisions; modifying the content requirement of MA liens; repealing protections
for American Indians

ARTICLE 6 - TECHNICAL

Making certain technical
changes relating to the moratorium on certification of nursing home beds;
revisor's instructions
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