1E Relating to human services
ARTICLE 1 - REHABILITATION TECHNICAL
Making
effective date changes
ARTICLE 2 - PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANCE
SERVICES
Making changes to the medical assistance (MA) personal care
assistance program by modifying notice of service changes to
recipients
ARTICLE 3 - FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES
Modifying the medical
assistance (MA) income standards minimum adjustment for families with
children
ARTICLE 4 - CLARIFICATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGE IN
ARRA
Clarifying Indian (native American) assets exclusion, medical assistance
(MA) premium payment exemption, and MinnesotaCare coverage and premium waiver to
conform with the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA);
repealing commissioner of human services protections for American Indians
federal compliance requirements
ARTICLE 5 - ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL
INGREDIENTS
Defining active pharmaceutical ingredients and modifying medical
assistance (MA) drug formulary provisions
ARTICLE 6 - MINIMUM QUANTITY OF
OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS
Specifying over-the-counter medications quantity
dispensing allowed units under medical assistance (MA)
ARTICLE 7 - AMBULANCE
REIMBURSEMENT
Defining how providers should bill ambulance services and
requiring use of diagnosis codes and updated diagnosis codes and web
availability under medical assistance (MA)
ARTICLE 8 - HOSPICE
AGE
Conforming medical assistance (MA) hospice care to federal code and
lowering the age of recipient
ARTICLE 9 - DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
DEFINITION AND ACCREDITATION FOR SUPPLIERS
Requiring durable medical
equipment vendors to enroll as medical assistance (MA) providers and allowing
the commissioner to authorize exceptions to enrollment requirement
ARTICLE
10- ELIMINATE ELDERLY WAIVER PAYMENT
Eliminating the medical assistance (MA)
elderly waiver services payments
ARTICLE 11 - SPECIAL NEEDS BASIC CARE
MEDICAID SERVICES
Allowing the commissioner of human services to contract
with demonstration providers and sponsors of qualified Medicare-approved special
needs plans under medical assistance (MA)
ARTICLE 12- HEALTH SERVICES
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Requiring the revisor of statutes to change the term health
services policy committee to health services advisory council
ARTICLE 13 -
COMMUNITY CLINICS
Changing the definition of medical assistance (MA)
nonprofit community clinics and critical access dental providers to not limit
certain state health care program patients
ARTICLE 14 - DISPROPORTIONATE
SHARE HOSPITAL PAYMENTS UNDER MINNESOTACARE
Requiring the commissioner of
human services under the medical assistance (MA) program to apply for additional
federal matching funds as available as disproportionate share hospital payments
under the MinnesotaCare program; excluding chemical dependency hospital-based
and residential treatment from inpatient services payments for MinnesotaCare
enrollees 18 and older
ARTICLE 15 - NONEMERGENCY MEDICAL
TRANSPORTATION
Requiring the commissioner of human services to establish a
nonemergency medical transportation advisory committee under medical assistance
(MA)
ARTICLE 16 - MANAGED CARE REPORTING
Requiring managed care financial
reporting
(rt)