Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1844

E Relating to human services; requiring the commissioner of human services to
develop a short application form to be used to determine the eligibility of
children for medical assistance (MA), general assistance medical care and the
MinnesotaCare program; requiring the commissioner or county agency to verify
income for medical assistance eligibility purposes using electronic
verification, authorizing the requirement for individual additional verification
under certain conditions; expanding medical assistance eligibility for children
and eligibility for retroactive payments; requiring the commissioner to develop
and implement a pilot project under medical assistance and GAMC establishing
presumptive eligibility for children with family income at or below the medical
assistance guidelines, requiring expansion to additional locations after a
certain date; requiring the commissioner to coordinate a public private
partnership to provide a statewide outreach campaign on the importance of health
coverage and the availability of coverage through public assistance health care
programs and the private health insurance market, requiring commissioner grants
to public or private organizations to provide local community based outreach to
assist families with children in obtaining health coverage, specifying certain
consideration requirements of the commissioner in awarding the grants, providing
for local sites and requiring commissioner implementation of a toll free
resource telephone number to provide information on health care coverage options
and creation of an uncompensated care pool to reimburse community clinics
providing initial health care screenings and preventive care services to
uninsured children, requiring the clinics or providers to offer services ranging
from information to on-site enrollment as a condition for reimbursement from the
pool; expanding the definition of cooperation relating to identification of
third party payers for MinnesotaCare program eligibility purposes to include
providing certain information about available group health plans, requiring
enrollment in group health plans under certain conditions; requiring electronic
verification of income under the MinnesotaCare program and expanding eligibility
for families with children; modifying the sliding fee scale for premiums and
exempting certain low income families with children and American Indian families
from premium payment requirements; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan
to streamline and consolidate the public health care programs through merger,
transfer or reconfiguration of existing health care programs for presentation to
the legislature by a certain date and by a certain date to develop and implement
a pilot project establishing coordinated enrollment for children determined
eligible for medical assistance and the national school lunch program; requiring
the commissioner to award grants to improve the quality of health care services
provided to children, specifying certain priority requirements; requiring the
commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of health to evaluate the
effects of certain legislative initiatives to increase the number of insured
children and to make recommendations on other actions needed to provide coverage
to all children by a certain date, requiring a commissioner of human services
report to the legislature by a certain date on the effectiveness of state grants
for outreach to improve preventive services for children enrolled in government
health care programs; requiring the commissioner to develop an online
application process for medical assistance, GAMC and the MinnesotaCare program
for implementation by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of commerce in
consultation with the commissioners of health, human services and revenue to
develop recommendations for initiatives to encourage the purchase of private
sector health care coverage for children ineligible for public programs,
specifying certain recommendations requirements, requiring submission to the
legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner of human
services for outreach efforts, for the health care preventive services funding
pool and for quality improvement grants (ra, ja)