2006 Minnesota Statutes

256B.491 WAIVERED SERVICES.
    Subdivision 1. Study. The commissioner of human services shall prepare a study on the
characteristics of providers who have the potential for offering home and community-based
services under federal waivers authorized by United States Code, title 42, sections 1396 to 1396p.
The study shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) An analysis of the characteristics of providers presently involved in offering services
to the elderly, chronically ill children, disabled persons under age 65, and developmentally
disabled persons;
(b) The potential for conversion to waivered services of facilities which currently provide
services to the disability groups enumerated in clause (a);
(c) Proposals for system redesign to include (1) profiles of the types of providers best able,
within reasonable fiscal constraints, to serve the needs of clients and to fulfill public policy goals
in provision of waivered services, (2) methods for limiting concentration of facilities providing
services under waiver, (3) methods for ensuring that services are provided by the widest array
of provider groups.
The commissioner shall present the study to the legislature no later than March 15, 1985.
    Subd. 2. Control limited. Until July 1, 1985, no one person shall control the delivery of
waivered services to more than 50 persons receiving waivered services as authorized by section
256B.501. For the purposes of this section the following terms have the meanings given them:
(1) A "person" is an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a trust, an
unincorporated organization, a subsidiary of an organization, and an affiliate. A "person" does not
include any governmental authority, agency or body.
(2) An "affiliate" is a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with another person.
(3) "Control" including the terms "controlling," "controlled by," and "under the common
control with" is the possession, direct or indirect, or the power to direct or cause the direction of
the management, operations or policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract, through consultation or otherwise.
    Subd. 3. Waivered services; salary adjustments. For the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1991, the commissioner of human services shall increase the statewide reimbursement rates for
home and community-based waivered services for persons with developmental disabilities to
reflect a three percent increase in salaries, payroll taxes, and fringe benefits of personnel below
top management employed by agencies under contract with the county board to provide these
services. The specific rate increase made available to county boards shall be calculated based on
the estimated portion of the fiscal year 1991 reimbursement rate that is attributable to these costs.
County boards shall verify in writing to the commissioner that each waivered service provider has
complied with this requirement. If a county board determines that a waivered service provider has
not complied with this requirement for a specific contract period, the county board shall reduce
the provider's payment rates for the next contract period to reflect the amount of money not spent
appropriately. The commissioner shall modify reporting requirements for vendors and counties as
necessary to monitor compliance with this provision.
History: 1984 c 641 s 24; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1991 c 292 art 4 s 62; 2005 c 56 s 1