MN HF3534

Establishes an opioid overdose reduction pilot program requiring the commissioner of health to provide grants to ambulance services for community paramedic teams to reduce opioid overdoses.

Community paramedics must connect with patients discharged from hospitals following opioid overdoses, develop personalized care plans, and provide follow-up services targeting high-need areas with high opioid use and death rates.

Requires initial home visits including home safety assessments, medication reconciliation, HIV risk assessment, naloxone instruction, and basic needs assessment; ongoing health assessments, medication management, chronic disease monitoring, and substance use disorder treatment coordination.

Grantees must evaluate project success by measuring reduction in opioid overdoses, overdose deaths, and inappropriate opioid use among served patients; submit findings to the commissioner and legislative health and human services committees by December 1, 2019.

Appropriates $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2019 from the general fund to the commissioner of health for the pilot program, available through June 30, 2021, with up to $50,000 available for program administration.