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Health facilities required to limit access to premises in certain circumstances, and health care facilities required to develop and implement policies regarding civil immigration enforcement.
Mobile food unit licensure requirements modified.
Licensure of emergency restoration professionals and emergency restoration companies required, fees established, enforcement provided, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Augmentative and alternative communication systems health insurance coverage required, and money appropriated.
Reproductive health education advanced.
Health plans required required to cover treatment of inherited metabolic diseases.
Parent allowed to request one free certified birth record per child.
Minnesota Parkinson's Research Trust Fund established, report required, and money appropriated.
Access to certain information allowed, references to chapter 144D removed, documentation on use of patient restraints required, and change of ownership provisions clarified.
Site visits for all enrolled medical assistance providers required, and medical assistance provider enrollment fees for provider types not previously subject to mandatory site visits established.
Community health board medical consultant acceptable professions to serve modifications
Establishment of vaccine requirements prohibited, and exceptions provided.
Medical assistance coverage of prescription drugs solely for weight loss prohibited.
Express state of application to the county-administered rural medical assistance (CARMA) program required for a medical assistance modification to apply to the CARMA program, and estimate of local fiscal impacts to counties or groups of counties administering CARMA required.
Express statement of application to county-based purchasing for a medical assistance modification required to apply to county-based purchasing, and estimates of local fiscal impacts to counties or groups of counties administering a county-based purchasing plan.
Medication repository program procedures modified, and an appropriation modified.
Definition of compounding of a drug amended to exempt the use of a flavoring agent.
Commissioner of health authorized to award grants for peer-to-peer suicide prevention programs and programs to train high school students as peer mentors.
Licensing boards required to take action against a license or application when a licensee or applicant is convicted of certain theft or fraud offenses.
Disallowance of drug manufacturers from restricting delivery of 340B prescription drugs continued, enforcement provided, and expiration date removed.
Requirements for the use of social work titles modified.
Patient-Centered Care program established, direct state payments to health care providers authorized, contracting with administrative services organizations authorized, conforming changes made, and money appropriated.
Psilocybin therapeutic use program established; protections for registered patients, designated cultivators, registered facilitators, and health care practitioners established; rulemaking authorized; civil actions authorized; fees established; advisory council established; and money appropriated.
Physical therapy practice governing provisions modified, and criminal penalties provided.
Requirements modified for reciprocal licensure to practice mortuary science.
Mortuary science internship requirements modified.
Athletic trainer scope of practice clarified.
Gross receipts tax on hospitals and health care providers; licensed chiropractors excluded from the providers subject to the tax.
Board of Executives for Long Term Services and Supports fees modified.
Assessment of the hospital surcharge temporarily stopped.
Public interest review by the Minnesota Department of Health on hospital and hospital campus cessations in operations, curtailments of operations, relocations of health services, and cessations in offering certain health services established.
Commissioner of health directed to study and report on activities to support innovations in cell and gene therapy to treat rare diseases, report required, and money appropriated.
Minnesota Community Pharmacy Patient Access and Fair Reimbursement Act established, and rulemaking required.
Requirements for educating parents and caregivers about dangers of shaking infants and young children modified, and money appropriated.
Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants eligible for loan forgiveness under the health professional education loan forgiveness program, and money appropriated.
Multiple levels of substance abuse care provided by the commissioner of corrections clarified in law, access to mental health unit beds for incarcerated persons expanded, and mandatory tuberculosis screening in correctional facilities clarified.
Fair pricing in community pharmacy reimbursement required.
Use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy services regulated, and civil penalties provided.
Respiratory Care Interstate Compact established.
Essential public health functions contingency account established, report required, money transferred to essential public health functions contingency account, commissioner of health funding provided, and money appropriated.
Stockpiling of essential medications for emergencies authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.
Eligibility for the MinnesotaCare program modified to eliminate eligibility for undocumented noncitizens.
Coverage of abortion services from medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs eliminated, abortion and abortion-related services eliminated as a mandatory health benefit for health plans other than large group plans, and inclusion of coverage in State Employees Group Insurance Program prohibited.
Use of spread pricing by pharmacy benefit managers prohibited, license application fees increased, permissible sources of income limited, fiduciary duties imposed, and money appropriated.
Requirement that health plan companies must credential and contract with certain providers of mental health services extended.
Guaranteed issuance of Medicare supplement policies for enrollees of a Medicare supplement policy that is involuntarily terminated or issued by an insolvent issuer expanded.
Private and public cemeteries allowed to bury certain animals in green burials.
Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage established.
Right to Try Act modified for individualized investigational treatments.
Protections provided to participants in and employees and operators of a health care provider wellness program.
Coverage of intrauterine device removals in medical assistance and MinnesotaCare required, and money appropriated.
Provider credentialing in health plan network clarified.
Requirements for exemption from immunizations for conscientiously held beliefs modified, commissioner of health required to develop an immunizations education module, and money appropriated.
Coverage without cost-sharing of immunizations for routine use without a prescription mandated, Minnesota Science-Based Vaccine Advisory Council established, advisory council duties established, and money appropriated.
Targeted grant program to address outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases established, and money appropriated.
Professions that may serve as a medical consultant for a community health board modified.
Licensing for practice of acupuncture and herbal medicine modified.
Physician assistant title modified to physician associate, and conforming changes made.
Requirements for education and training on vaccine administration to prevent shoulder injuries related to vaccine administration established, and money appropriated.
Education requirements for licensure and continuing education topics in certain health-related occupations modified.
Birth record amendments and replacement birth records that modify the sex indicated in a minor's original birth record prohibited.
Birth record amendments and replacement birth records that modify the sex indicated in a person's original birth record prohibited.
Conditions for admission to or continued residence in nursing homes and assisted living facilities prohibited, facilities required to maintain automatic external defibrillators, and training requirements modified.
Private equity company acquisitions of nursing homes and assisted living facilities regulated, study required, and money appropriated.
Health care worker platforms required to register with the commissioner of health, and money appropriated.
Definition for covered insulin provided for the insulin safety net program and manufacturer registration fee.
Certain veterans or former members of the armed forces who have forfeited federal benefits made ineligible for state-funded benefits, services, or programs; and environmental hazards information and assistance program for veterans discontinued.
Community engagement requirements for the medical assistance program established.
Time period natural organic reduction facilities may hold dead human bodies before initiating natural organic reduction extended.
Coverage and payment for certain pharmacy services modified.
Reverse auction procurement requirement for SEGIP pharmacy benefit contracts modified, use of spread pricing by pharmacy benefit managers prohibited, license application fees increased, fiduciary duties imposed, and money appropriated.
Alternative mechanism for prompt payment of emergency room and ambulance charges incurred by patients enrolled in very high deductible health plans provided.
Variance considerations related to submerged closed loop heat exchanger systems added.
Exception to the hospital construction moratorium provided.
Office of gun violence prevention established in the Department of Health, report required, and money appropriated.
MinnesotaCare Plan established, commissioner of commerce required to seek a section 1332 waiver, and commissioner of human services required to request to suspend the MinnesotaCare program.
Use of prior authorization and step therapy for drugs used in the treatment of opioid use disorder under medical assistance prohibited.
Prohibition on conversion therapy with minors and vulnerable adults repealed.
Provisions for the cost of health records changed.
Dentistry profession licensure, registration, scope of practice, continuing education, and disciplinary grounds modified; and fees established.
Eligibility for medical assistance and expedited disability determinations modified, review of death master file required, and contract requirements for managed care plans provided.
Certified child life specialist licensure established, rulemaking permitted, and civil and criminal penalties provided.
End-of-life option for terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less established, criminal penalties provided, certain data classified, immunity for certain acts provided, and enforcement authorized.
Use of funds limited for state-sponsored health programs for funding abortions.
Health care entities required to report information on ownership or control to the commissioner of health, annual public reports required, enforcement provided, penalties authorized, and money appropriated.
Use of public funds to cover abortions under MinnesotaCare restricted.
Spatial separation requirement for residential programs modified, spatial separation requirement for assisted living facilities established, and notice to local municipalities after issuing licenses for residential settings required.
Advanced practice registered nurse postgraduate collaborative practice requirements removed.
Licensure for massage therapy and Asian bodywork therapy established, fees established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.
Patient-Centered Care program established, direct state payments to health care providers authorized, and money appropriated.
Rights and protections for residents of certain long-term care settings modified, rights and protections for clients receiving home care services and clients receiving home and community-based services modified, arbitration provisions prohibited, notices required, civil actions authorized, and money appropriated.
Standards for utilization review performance modified, cause of action for wrongful denials of prior authorizations by utilization review organizations or their reviewing physicians created, and attorney general enforcement provided.
Health policy bill.
Health and human services finance bill.
Nurse Licensure Compact created, and money appropriated.
Use of an exemption to immunization due to conscientiously held beliefs for immunization against measles, mumps, and rubella prohibited.
Establishment of a task force on prevention of female genital mutilation required, report required, and money appropriated.
Social media platforms required to post a mental health warning label and timer notifications.
Individual pricing of phototherapy lights required, and technical changes made.
A resolution urging the President and Congress to fully fund Medicaid and oppose harmful cuts to this crucial and much-needed program.
Department of Health required to employ a public health school health services consultant.
Maternal death studies conducted by the commissioner of health expanded to include maternal morbidity.
Director of child sex trafficking prevention required to submit a program evaluation each odd-numbered year to the legislature.
Hospitals required to provide registered nurse staffing at levels consistent with nationally accepted standards, staffing levels reporting required, retaliation prohibited, civil penalties imposed, and money appropriated.
Reimbursement rates for services provided by birth centers in the medical assistance program modified.
Reproductive health equity grant fund established, and money appropriated.
Licensed ambulance services aid provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
Palliative Care Advisory Council funding provided, and money appropriated.
Addition of fluoride to public drinking water prohibited.
Licensing requirements amended for graduates of foreign medical schools, commissioner of health authorized to remedy violations by employers of limited license holders, employers of limited license holders required to carry medical malpractice insurance, and limited license holders required to provide periodic certification to the medical board.
Minnesota Rare Disease Advisory Council funding provided, and money appropriated.
Gender-affirming medical care and certain counseling for minors prohibited in the state of Minnesota, and penalties for violations established.
Limitations on optometrists prescribing and administering drugs modified.
Epinephrine access in schools requirements modified.
Family Tree Clinic funding provided, and money appropriated.
All pharmacies required to make ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine available without a prescription.
Administration of gene-based vaccines prohibited, and penalty provided.
Special event food stands exempted from the requirement to pay the statewide hospitality fee.
Assessment on hospitals imposed, directed payments to hospitals in the medical assistance program required, and reports required.
Central service technician requirements established.
Health care worker well-being grant program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage of prescription drugs clarified in cases of cost-effective health insurance coverage.
Physician and medical resident eligibility for loan forgiveness under the health professional education loan forgiveness program modified.
Adaptive swimming lessons and water safety education program established for children with developmental delays and their parents.
MinnesotaCare public option established, premium scale for public option enrollees established, commissioner of commerce required to seek a section 1332 waiver, and money appropriated.
Local health departments authorized to obtain vaccines and a predosed form of epinephrine according to a standing order for distribution provided by the commissioner of health.
Requirements for use of hot water pools on certain rental properties established.
Interventions and supports related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders provided, grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Coverage of chiropractic services modified in the medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs.
Hospital closure provisions clarified.
Minnesota Health Care Workforce Advisory Council established, and report required.
Commissioner of human services required to select a state pharmacy benefit manager through procurement, commissioner required to enter into a master contract with the state pharmacy benefit manager, program authority and eligibility requirements specified, and report required.
Greater Twin Cities United Way funding provided, and money appropriated.
Electronic monitoring authorized in certain health care facilities.
Prescription drug transparency provisions modified.
Provider network adequacy provisions changed.
Subject of a birth record allowed to change, remove, or add sex indicator on birth records.
Issuance of grants by the commissioner of health to support education and outreach for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome required, commissioner of health required to establish a ME/CFS program, issuance of grants to establish and improve access to social services for ME/CFS syndrome required, report required, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance payment rate increased for nonemergency medical transportation for client reimbursement.
Health maintenance organization regulations updated.
Insurers allowed to provide explanation of benefits electronically.
Grant program established to fund youth sports physicals by mobile clinics, and money appropriated.
Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to include lower-cost drugs in their formularies, and formulary structure and formulary tiering for each health plan required to give preference to the drug with the lowest out-of-pocket cost to the patient.
Pharmacy intern provisions modified.
Nitrate private well mitigation funding provided, and money appropriated.
State-funded medical assistance and MinnesotaCare provided for inmates of county jails.
County-administered rural medical assistance program established; payment, coverage, and eligibility requirements for the CARMA program established; and commissioner of human services directed to seek federal waivers.
Commissioner of human services required to revalidate providers enrolled in Minnesota health care programs every three years.
Hospital surcharge redirected to health care access fund.
Community solutions funding provided for healthy child development grants, and money appropriated.
Informed consent for sensitive examinations performed on an anesthetized or unconscious patient required, and criminal penalty provided.
Assisted living service termination requirements modified.
Reimbursement rates for long-term ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring services provided by diagnostic testing facilities raised.
Requirements for dental administrator rates modified in the medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs, dental administrator contract dates changed, critical access dental provider task force established, and report required.
Health; formulary changes prohibited during the plan year.
Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority restructured and renamed to Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority, authority to construct and finance health care facilities authorized, and bonding capacity increased.
Health occupation definitions amended to include licensed certified midwife, licensure established for certified midwives, civil and criminal penalties established, and medical assistance coverage expanded to licensed certified midwife services.
Medical assistance rate adjustments established for physician professional services, residential service rates increased, and statewide reimbursement rate for behavioral health home services required.
Optometrists prescribing and administering drugs limitations modified.
Enforcement of government vaccine mandates prohibited, and proof of presence of natural antibodies as an alternative to vaccination allowed.
Use of nonopioid directives authorized, and immunity for certain acts or failures to act established.
Public postsecondary institutions required to maintain a supply of opiate antagonists on system campuses.
Traditional health care practices covered under medical assistance.
Emergency medical services overdose data modified.
Use of nonopioid directives authorized, and immunity for certain acts or failures to act established.
Human services forecast adjustments provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance dental provisions modified.
Right of patients and residents to have a support person present when receiving health care services established, and civil penalty established.
Commissioner of health governing fees provision modified.
Provider taxes contingent reduction provisions modified.
Beautywell Project funding provided, and money appropriated.
Heritable or congenital disorder revision of lists of tests required to be administered for determination of presence.
Prior authorization mental health carve out expanded.
Optometry scope of practice modified.
Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage established.
Default surrogate for health decisions created, and process to appoint default surrogate for health decisions provided.
Assisted living provisions updated.
Supplemental nursing services provisions updated.
Case mix reimbursement for federal conformity modified.
Requirements for green burials established, and amount of proceeds dedicated to permanent care and improvement funds modified.
Psilocybin cultivation, possession, transportation, and personal use by individuals 21 years of age or older authorized; protections established; public education and harm reduction programs established; Psychedelic Medicine Board established; criminal penalties provided; rulemaking authorized; civil actions authorized; and money appropriated.
Reimbursement procedures for federally qualified health centers modified.
Suicide prevention curriculum funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage of psychiatric collaborative care model services provided, and money appropriated.
Ambulance services medical assistance payment rates increase provided.
Ambulance service training and staffing grant program established, and money appropriated.
Clinical art therapist licensure established, Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy membership modified, fees and civil penalties imposed, and money appropriated.
Provisions in the prescription monitoring program changed.
Practice of chiropractic clarified to include providing telemedicine services, State Board of Chiropractic Examiners clarified to have the disciplinary authority, and animal chiropractic sections reorganized.
Commissioner of human services funding provided for grants to navigator organizations, and money appropriated.
Health care utilization review provisions and prior authorization clinical criteria applicability modified.
Climate change impact on mental health advisory task force established, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of health funding provided for grants for substance misuse prevention, education, and recovery programs; and money appropriated.
Commissioner of commerce required to request the continuation of a state innovation waiver, and money transferred from the general fund to the premium security plan account.
Spoken language health care interpreter work group established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Changes to born alive infant provisions made.
Commissioner of human services directed to establish a prescription drug purchasing program, program authority and eligibility requirements specified, and recommendations required.
Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to use prescription drug rebates and other compensation to benefit covered persons, and report required.
Single administrative structure and delivery system pilot program established.
Radon detection or mitigation licensure of firms provisions modified.
Over-the-counter allergy medicine sale restrictions modified.
Consent to electronic monitoring requirements modified, retaliation in nursing homes and assisted living facilities provisions modified, membership and duties of home care and assisted living program advisory council expanded, hospice bill of rights modified, required binding arbitration agreements prohibited in assisted living contracts, medication management requirements modified, and health care agents authority to restrict visitation and communication modified.
Safe Place for Newborns provisions modified.
Informed consent provided for sensitive examinations of an anesthetized or unconscious patient, and penalty established.
Commissioner of human services required to establish a directed pharmacy dispensing payment to improve and maintain access to pharmaceutical services, and money appropriated.
Dementia services program established, and money appropriated.
Insulin manufacturer registration fee provisions modified.
Hospital swing bed license conditions modified.
Healthy eating, here at home program transferred to the Department of Health; fresh bucks pilot program established; report required; and money appropriated.
Maternal death study requirements clarified.
Community care hub grant established, and money appropriated.
Women's pregnancy centers and maternity homes grant program established, appropriations reduced, and money appropriated.
Born alive infant provisions modified.
Sexual and reproductive health services grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance required to cover birth services provided at home.
Funding provided for distribution to community health boards and Tribal governments for foundational public health responsibilities, and money appropriated.
Ambulance operating deficit grant program established, account established, and reports required.
Immunization data included on death records.
Minnesota Epilepsy Program created, and money appropriated.
Well disclosure certificates modified, fee established, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage for violence prevention services provided, and initial and final reports on violence prevention services required.
Hospital payment rates modified.
Licensure requirements for dental hygienists amended.
Parent's bill of rights created.
Technical changes made to social work licensure regarding provisional licenses.
Funding provided for federally qualified health center subsidies, and money appropriated.
Hospitals and birth centers required to educate parents on recognizing physical abuse in infants.
State-funded payments to undocumented noncitizens prohibited, and undocumented noncitizens provided to be ineligible for MinnesotaCare and North Star Promise scholarship program.
Physician assistant collaborative agreement requirements modified.
Requirements for speech language pathology assistants clarified.
Facility fees for nonemergency services provided at provider-based clinics prohibited, facility fees for certain health care services prohibited, and report required.
Health care guaranteed to be available and affordable for every Minnesotan; Minnesota Health Plan, Minnesota Health Board, Minnesota Health Fund, Office of Health Quality and Planning, ombudsman for patient advocacy, and auditor general for the Minnesota Health Plan established; Affordable Care Act 1332 waiver requested; and money appropriated.
Commissioner of health required to establish a provider orders for life-sustaining treatment program, rulemaking authorized, data classified, immunity established for certain acts, and money appropriated.
Fluoridation of municipal water supplies provisions modified.
Grant funding provided to plan and develop an African-American-focused Homeplace model, and money appropriated.
Nonopioid drugs coverage required for treatment or management of pain.
Gun violence pilot program established to reduce trauma, report required, and money appropriated.
Requirements relating to the provisions of cause of death information modified.
Prepayments for certain dental services regulated.
Immunity from criminal liability provided for health care providers when performing health treatment and services.
Opioid prevention and education funding provided, and money appropriated.
School-based telehealth program establishment required, reports required, and money appropriated.
Sudden unexplained death in childhood research grants funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
Certain hot tubs exempted from public pool regulations.
Data on fully denied claims required to be submitted to the all-payer claims database, fee schedule for expanded access to data in the all-payer claims database established, and money appropriated.
Voluntary well water testing program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Grants for dental assisting and hygiene education programs made, and money appropriated.
Lead risk assessments grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Nurse temporary permits extended from 60 to 90 days.
Reimbursement requirements for ambulance attendant education costs modified, and money appropriated.
Use of artificial aquifer recharge where appropriate facilitated, groundwater storage and recovery funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medication repository program procedures modified, and money appropriated.
Rochester Area Foundation funding provided for the Pamoja Women program, and money appropriated.
Opioid prevention and education funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance income limit increased for persons with disabilities and persons age 65 and over.
Medical assistance modified for employed persons with disabilities program.
Cost-sharing for certain office visits for infants, children, and adolescents prohibited.
Income eligibility for aged or blind persons or persons with disabilities modified.
State agency authority to submit a public option waiver application to the federal government repealed, and appropriation reduced.
Undocumented noncitizens made ineligible for MinnesotaCare.
Requirements for making current standard charges available to the public modified, collection actions prohibited in certain circumstances, and actions by patients and guarantors authorized.
Office of patient protection established, responsibilities of office established, and reports required.
Payment rates for nonemergency medical transportation increased.
Ambulance service grant programs and rural emergency medical services uncompensated care pool payment program established, monthly emergency medical services telecommunications fee and prepaid wireless emergency medical services fee established, transfers of money authorized, and money appropriated.
Occupational medicine residency grant program established, and money appropriated.
Dispensing fee requirements imposed on health plan companies and county-based purchasing plans providing prescription drug coverage in the medical assistance program.
Right for a patient or resident to choose to have a support person present while receiving care or services established.
Medical assistance coverage of drugs covered by a primary third-party payer required, and coverage of in-network services by medical assistance regardless of network or referral status for a primary third-party payer required.
Limits for contact tracing, digital contract tracing, immunizations, communicable disease testing, and the required disclosure of certain information established; destruction of certain data required; mandatory digital contact tracing by employers prohibited; and civil penalties provided.
Medical assistance hospice service coverage expanded to include room and board.
Nurses licensed under the Nurse Licensure Compact allowed to practice nursing under specific circumstances.
Rural EMS uncompensated care pool payment program established, and money appropriated.
Coverage for certain diagnostic and screening colorectal cancer tests required, early colorectal cancer screening required, and education program developed.
Community emergency medical technician certification requirements modified, and medical assistance coverage of community emergency medical technician services modified.
Vaccine recipient bill of rights established.
Ambulance provider assessment program established, supplemental medical assistance payments provided for ambulance services, certain ambulance services exempted from the MinnesotaCare provider tax, report required, and money appropriated.
Coverage of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation established as an outpatient service.
Parent or legal guardian required to be present for vaccine administration to a minor.
Health care providers prohibited from asking patients or residents about firearms or ammunition.
Dental service coverage modified to include pediatric zirconia crowns.
Cannabis; Office of Cannabis Management and the Department of Health appropriations modified, cannabis provisions modified, Department of Commerce assessed fees modified, consumer protection provisions added and modified, Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act established, rulemaking authorized, data classified, technical changes made, reports required, and money appropriated.
Office of Emergency Medical Services established to replace Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board, duties specified and transferred, advisory council established, alternative EMS response model pilot program established, conforming changes made, provisions modified relating to ambulance service personnel and emergency medical responders, emergency ambulance service aid provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Office of Emergency Medical Services established to replace Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board, duties specified and transferred, advisory council established, alternative EMS response model pilot program established, conforming changes made, provisions modified relating to ambulance service personnel and emergency medical responders, emergency ambulance service aid provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Assertive community treatment provisions modified.
Medical assistance dispensing fee increased.
Transfer care specialist registration established, behavior analysts licensure established, veterinary technician and veterinary institutional license established, veterinary supervision provisions modified, specialty dentist licensure and dental assistant licensure modified, physician assistant additional collaboration requirements removed, social worker provisional licensure modified, guest licensure established for marriage and family therapists, pharmacy provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. governing provisions modified.
Licensing requirements for graduates of foreign medical schools amended.
Pharmacy benefit manager business practices modified, pharmacy benefit manager general reimbursement practices established, and maximum allowable cost pricing requirements modified.
Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to include lower-cost drugs in their formularies, and formulary structure and formulary tiering for each health plan required to give preference to drug with lowest out-of-pocket cost to patient.
Direct support professionals allowed to access MinnesotaCare, and money appropriated.
Health maintenance organizations required to be nonprofit corporations organized under chapter 317A.
Rural EMS uncompensated care pool payment program established, and money appropriated.
Hospital nursing educational loan forgiveness program modified, and money appropriated.
Continued publication of annual adverse health event report required, retaliation against patient care staff prohibited, and enforcement provided.
Notice and public hearings for hospital closures, curtailment of operations, relocation of services, and cessation in offering services governing requirements modified; penalties provided; and right of first refusal before the sale of hospital or hospital campus established.
Human services forecast adjustments made, and money appropriated.
Issuance of grant required to support stillbirth prevention through tracking fetal movement pilot program, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of human services directed to provide an annual report on treatments for sickle cell disease.
Health and human services supplemental budget bill.
Medical debt governing provisions modified, billing and payment established for miscoded health treatments and services, medical debt collecting practices prohibited, and enforcement provided.
Health plan coverage of abortion and related services required, medical assistance required, and conforming changes made.
Onetime aid provided to certain licensed ambulance services, reports required, and money appropriated.
University of America; Center for Nursing Equity and Excellence established, funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
Advisory task force established to assess impacts of climate change on mental health, and money appropriated.
Local government and private ambulance service aid provisions modified, and onetime aid program established for licensed ambulance services, reports required, and money appropriated.
Dementia services program established, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of human services required to develop program to provide supplemental medical assistance payments to a provider of level I trauma care and statewide emergency medical transportation services.
Moratorium on hospital and hospital campus cessations in operations, curtailments of operations, relocations of health services, and cessations in offering health services established.
Social work services interstate compact created.
Provisional health-related licensure sections modified and moved.
County social work title exemption removed.
Alternative emergency medical services response model pilot program established, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of labor and industry required to adopt rules related to acceptable blood lead levels for workers.
Blue Earth County; supplemental housing support rate created for a long-term residential facility.
Commissioner of labor and industry required to adopt rules related to acceptable blood lead levels for workers.
Mental and behavioral health care provisions modified including service standards, adult and child mental health services grants, substance use disorder services, supportive housing, and provider certification and reimbursement; reports required; and money appropriated.
Rare Disease Advisory Council membership modified, and money appropriated.
Health maintenance organization transaction oversight provided, and nonprofit health coverage entity conversion transaction requirements established, transaction conversion prohibited, enforcement authorized, and data classified.
Nonprofit hospitals required to make certain information available to public and report certain information to commissioner of health.
Governor's budget bill for health and human services; health care, child welfare, child care licensing , Department of Health, and Department of Children, Youth, and Families provisions modified; health and human services law technical changes made; appropriations for forecasted programs adjusted; penalties imposed; and money appropriated.
Oral hygiene awareness among new Americans funding provided, and money appropriated.
Right of patients and residents to have a support person present when receiving health care services established, and civil penalty established.
Civil commitment priority admission requirements modified, prisoner in a correctional facility specified to not be responsible for co-payments for mental health medications, county co-payment expense reimbursement allowed, and money appropriated.
Surgical procedures prohibited from being performed on patients under age 12 with certain exceptions, and disciplinary action by health-related licensing boards authorized.
Requirements governing access to information on assisted living facility compliance with correction orders modified.
Office of Cannabis Management prohibited from approving cannabis flower, cannabis products, and hemp-derived consumer products.
Office of Emergency Medical Services established to replace Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board, duties specified, advisory council established, alternative EMS response model pilot program established, emergency ambulance service aid established, and money appropriated.
Office of Cannabis Management prohibited from approving cannabis flower, cannabis products, and hemp-derived consumer products.
Commissioner of human services required to establish directed pharmacy dispensing payment to improve and maintain access to pharmaceutical services, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of health required to establish telehealth pilot project for school districts, report required, and money appropriated.
Equal coverage of services provided by pharmacist required, and medical assistance and MinnesotaCare requirements for coverage and payment of pharmacy services set.
Pharmacists authorized to prescribe, dispense, and administer drugs to prevent acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus; pharmacists authorized to order, conduct, and interpret laboratory tests necessary for therapy that uses drugs to prevent acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus.
Dakota County; mental health crisis services funding provided, and money appropriated.
Health plans required to develop maternal mental health program, maternal mental health terms defined, and certain health care professionals required to ensure that mothers are offered screenings for maternal mental health conditions.
Online notary signatures allowed.
Mental health pharmacogenomics pilot program grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Health carriers required to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing.
Health plans required to cover scalp hair prostheses.
Assisted living director qualifications and ongoing training requirements modified.
Alzheimer's disease added to program on reducing health disparities, and money appropriated.
Amino acid-based elemental formula health insurance coverage required.
Limitations on optometrists prescribing and administering drugs modified.
Orthotic and prosthetic device coverage required, and rulemaking authorized.
Ambulance staffing requirements and emergency medical responder registration modified, authority to reinstate ambulance service personnel certifications extended, requirements for approval and reapproval of education programs modified, and appropriation modified.
Rural ambulance service staffing grant program established, and money appropriated.
Board of Nursing certified midwife licensure established, and criminal penalties provided.
Nurse Licensure Compact created, and money appropriated.
Ambulance service volunteer education cost reimbursement requirements modified.
Community care hub grant established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Transfer care specialists authorized to remove dead human bodies from place of death, registration of transfer care specialists provided by commissioner of health, and mortuary science fee added.
Medical assistance coverage of residential crisis stabilization for children established, and report required.
Health plans clarified to require coverage of gender-affirming care.
Veterans home provisions modified.
Coverage of over-the-counter contraceptive drugs, devices, and products by insurers and medical assistance required.
Patient health record release requirements modified.
Licensed traditional midwife authority clarified to obtain, possess, and administer drugs, supplies, and devices.
Transfer care specialists authorized to remove dead human bodies from place of death, registration of transfer care specialists provided by commissioner of health, and mortuary science fee added.
Tobacco; sale or offer for sale of flavored tobacco, nicotine, or lobelia products prohibited; and penalties authorized.
Medical assistance required to cover palliative care services, rulemaking required, and money appropriated.
Chain community pharmacies prohibited from establishing quotas.
Payment rates to Indian health services facilities for certain medications modified, and requirements for hospitals serving as adult day treatment providers modified.
Immunization data required to be included on death records.
African American-focused Homeplace model planning and development grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical Assistance rate adjustments for physician and professional services established, residential services rates increased, statewide reimbursement rate for behavioral health home services required, and money appropriated.
Licensure for music therapists created, fees established, and civil penalties imposed.
Medical assistance eligibility determination timelines modified for hospital patients, supplemental payments provided for disability waiver services, long-term care assessment provisions modified, and direct referrals from hospitals to the state medical review team permitted.
Workgroup on Expediting Rental Assistance recommendations for improving application approval times for family homelessness prevention and assistance program, emergency assistance program, and emergency general assistance implemented; and reports required.
Pilot program grant established for pediatric hospital discharge to home care nursing services, report required, and money appropriated.
Suicide prevention training for teachers funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
End-of-life option established for terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less, criminal penalties provided, data classified, reports required, immunity provided, and enforcement authorized.
Provision of cause of death information requirements modified, and administrative penalties permitted.
Reproductive health equity grant fund established, and money appropriated.
Supportive housing provisions modified, and money appropriated.
Minnesota Statutes language concerning expired human services reports to the legislature removed.
Collaborative Intensive Bridging Services medical assistance covered services established, commissioner of human services directed to conduct rate study and request federal approval, and report required.
Emergency medical services volunteer education cost reimbursement modified, and carryforward of certain appropriations authorized.
Department of Health required to enter into an interagency agreement to pay for human services background studies for applicants and license holders regulated by commissioner of health.
Residential crisis stabilization for children medical assistance covered service established, commissioner of human services directed to request federal approval, and report required.
Supportive housing provisions modified.
Commissioner of human services directed to develop covered benefit for integrated health services, demonstration project created, report required, and money appropriated.
Use of grant funds for activities relating to planning of American Indian focused birth center, and money appropriated.
Insurance; infertility treatment coverage required by health plans and medical assistance.
Seizure detection device public awareness campaign grant program established, and money appropriated.
Advanced practice registered nurse postgraduate collaborative practice requirements removed.
Commissioner of health required to provide grant to network of federally qualified health centers to support development of electronic health records, and money appropriated.
Acupuncture and herbal medicine practice modified.
Government vaccine mandate enforcement prohibited, and proof of presence of natural antibodies allowed as alternative to vaccination.
Veteran service officers authorized to receive vital records without a fee.
Supplemental payments to eligible hospitals for graduate medical education costs established.
Countable income under housing support program modified.
Date change for correction order reconsideration under Health Enforcement Consolidation Act made.
Dispensing fee requirements imposed on health plan companies and county-based purchasing plans providing prescription drug coverage in the medical assistance program.
Grant funding provided to consolidate children's residential treatment program and create specialized care children's residential treatment campus, and money appropriated.
MinnesotaCare public option established, eligibility expanded, public option enrollee premium scale established, section 1332 waiver required to be sought by commissioner of commerce, and money appropriated.
Department of Human Services disability services and substance use disorder services policy bill.
Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General policy bill; human services licensing, background studies, provider notification, substance use disorder medication, and electronic signature provisions modified.
Licensed graduate social workers temporarily allowed to engage in clinical practice without supervision if providing crisis response services and to provide treatment supervisions to individuals on crisis teams.
Certified community behavioral health pilot project created, report required, and money appropriated.
Medication repository program requirements modified.
Hospital and violence intervention team safety requirements established, hospitals required to have a secure online portal for reporting of violence incidents and threats of violence, de-escalation training required for all hospital health care workers, and report required.
Commissioner of human services authorized to provide separate reimbursement for biological products provided in the inpatient hospital setting as part of cell or gene therapy to treat rare diseases.
Ramsey County; youth mental health urgency room funding provided, and money appropriated.
SNAP established as medicine program, and money appropriated.
Healthy Eating, Here at Home Program transferred from Minnesota Humanities Center to Department of Health, fresh bucks pilot program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Residential programs licensing and zoning requirements modified.
Program to provide grants to women's pregnancy centers and maternity homes established, appropriation reduced, and money appropriated.
Early childhood mental health consultation grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
Thrombectomy-capable stroke centers designated.
Practice or provision of physical therapy governing provisions modified, and criminal penalties provided.
Maximum allowable charge for supplemental nursing services modified, registered supplemental nursing services agencies prohibited from being a related organization of an organization in the business of providing or procuring temporary employment for independent contractors.
Chosen Vessels Midwifery Services funding allocated to provide culturally relevant education and support on breastfeeding to African American families, and money appropriated.
Background check requirements for housing support providers modified.
Health plan companies required to include essential community providers in all health plans, and contract payment rates modified.
Lead risk assessments grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of human services required to develop county-administered rural medical assistance model, report required, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of health required to permit hospitals to obtain opiate antagonists through web-based portal.
Special event food stands exempted from requirement to pay statewide hospitality fee.
Health care providers required to provide patients with itemized description of billed charges for health care services and goods.
MNsure reporting requirements changed.
Well disclosure certificate requirements modified, fee established, and money appropriated.
Ka Joog grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Occupational medicine residency grant program established, and money appropriated.
Kickbacks in human services benefits prohibited, and criminal penalties provided.
Provisions for public review process in rulemaking, case mix review, and Minnesota One Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative changed; definition modified; procurement contractor waiver created; independent informal dispute resolution process aligned; and licensure requirements for certain professions modified.
Basic life support ambulance staffing variances provided under emergency circumstances.
Licensing requirements for behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.
Health care service prior authorization and coverage requirements modified, ground for disciplinary action against physicians modified, reports to the commissioner of commerce and the legislature required, data classified, and rulemaking authorized.
Licensure for clinical art therapists established, and fees and civil penalties imposed.
Conversion of human remains to basic elements using natural organic reduction permitted, licensure requirements for natural organic reduction facilities established, and licensure fees established.
Certain hot tubs exempted from public pool regulations.
Medical record fee charging existing prohibition clarified.
Naturopathic doctors licensure required, and professional conduct modified.
Health; 340B covered entity reporting requirements modified.
General assistance standard of assistance modified.
County grants for implementation of service delivery transformation requirements and information technology infrastructure provided, and money appropriated.
Long-term safety net insulin program appropriation modified and extended, and sunset for the long-term safety net insulin program repealed.
Licensing sanctions prohibited for patients in registry program, schools and landlords prohibited from refusing to serve patients enrolled in registry program because cannabis is a controlled substance under federal law, and other protections for patients enrolled in registry program provided.
Patients enrolled in registry program authorized to cultivate up to 16 cannabis plants without a license, patients enrolled in registry program authorized to obtain cannabis flower from registered designated caregivers, and caregivers authorized to grow plants on behalf of patients.
Veterinary technicians, practice of veterinary technology, and unlicensed veterinary employees regulated.
Interstate compact established for professional counselors.
Care evaluation established as a covered medical assistance home care service, medical assistance homemaker rates modified, and report required.
Surgical smoke evacuation system policies required.
2022 appropriation for elimination of duplicative background studies replaced, and money appropriated.
Individual pricing of phototherapy lights required, payment methodologies for enteral nutrition equipment and supplies modified, processes for establishing payment rates for medical equipment and supplies modified, and technical changes made.
Covered emergency medical assistance services modified.
Alternate hospital inpatient payment rate specified.
Dentist and dental hygienist compact created.
Licensure by credentials requirements modified for dental assistants.
Veterinary medicine licensing amended for University of Minnesota employees.
Rebasing of dental payment rates under medical assistance and MinnesotaCare required.
Licensed pharmacist authority expanded to initiate, order, and administer vaccines and medical and laboratory tests; and medical assistance coverage required.
Physical therapy interstate licensure compact created.
Agency's authority with respect to housing support agreements modified.
Rural dental professional loan forgiveness program established, and money appropriated.
Minnesota Athletic Trainers Act modified.
Prior authorization mental health carve out expanded.
Use of asset verification system authorization clarified; state tax credits, rebates, and refunds excluded from income; electronic notice to commissioner for probate matters permitted; health care administration statutory corrections made; and reports repealed.
Dental assisting and hygiene education program grants made, and money appropriated.
Definition of usual and customary price modified for purposes of medical assistance prescription drug reimbursement.
Permitted number of hospital beds in connection with a project to replace a hospital revised.
Pharmacists required to dispense prescription using an audible container label or braille container label for patients who are visually impaired or blind.
Coverage of chiropractic services under medical assistance and MinnesotaCare modified.
Ambulance service mutual aid agreement requirements modified.
Ambulance provider assessment program established, supplemental medical assistance payments provided for ambulance services, and ambulance services exempted from MinnesotaCare provider tax.
Commissioner of health required to study issues related to development of statewide registry for provider orders for life-sustaining treatment, and report required.
Medical resource communication center grant established, and money appropriated.
Fuel adjustment provided for nonemergency medical transportation and ambulance service reimbursement.
Funerals; travel protection agreements excluded to certain provisions.
Expansion of MinnesotaCare eligibility to include undocumented noncitizens eliminated.
Program established to provide grants to women's pregnancy centers and maternity homes, appropriation reduced, and money appropriated.
Training requirements for nursing assistants and medication aides modified.
12-month continuous medical assistance eligibility provided for adults.
Optometry scope of practice and unlawful practice of medicine clarified.
Additional collaboration requirements for physician assistants removed to provide ongoing psychiatric treatment for children with emotional disturbance and adults with serious mental illness.
Occupational therapist licensure compact established.
Medical assistance coverage of psychiatric Collaborative Care Model provided.
Opiate product manufacturer reporting requirements amended, and opiate product registration fee determination process amended.
Questions related to provider health conditions on credentialing applications prohibited, joy in medicine recognition grant program established, physician wellness program established, well-being of health care workers awareness campaign required, and money appropriated.
Relocation and change of ownership fees established for persons registered with or licensed by the Board of Pharmacy.
Groundwater thermal exchange device permit changes made.
Commissioner of health required to establish provider orders for life-sustaining treatment program, rulemaking authorized, data classified, immunity established, and money appropriated.
Grant amounts increased and dual training competency grant program adjustments made, temporary permit requirements modified for respiratory therapist licensure, time a temporary permit issued by Board of Nursing is valid extended, health care professionals program mental health grants extended, and money appropriated.
Physician assistant licensure compact created.
Health care providers administering vaccines required to disclose information to patients, reports of adverse reactions to vaccines required, and content of an informed consent form specified.
Optometrist limitations on prescribing and administering drugs modified.
Emergency general assistance modified, and report required.
Hospital construction moratorium exception provided.
Safe Place for Newborns provisions modified.
Home care workers allowed to access MinnesotaCare, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage provided for violence prevention services, and initial and final reports required on violence prevention services.
Commissioner of health required to develop health care instruction form related to opioids, and existing permissible health care instructions modified to exclude prohibiting the intraoperative use of opioids.
Minnesota Athletic Trainers Act modified.
Commissioner of human services required to establish and evaluate care coordination technology system demonstration project, report required, and money appropriated.
Definition of prescription amended to allow for patient-specific indications for use, and Board of Pharmacy required to adopt rules relating to prescription drug labeling.
Specialty dentistry licensure practice limitation modified.
Social worker provisional licensure modified and recodified.
Licensed psychologist income subsidy pilot program established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Nurse temporary permits extended from 60 to 90 days.
Regulation of international health organization prohibited.
Medical assistance coverage of prescription drugs clarified in cases of cost-effective health insurance coverage.
Licensure requirements established for speech-language pathology assistants, and licensure fee and criminal history background requirements established.
Medication regimen review and medication practices review at assisted living facilities requirements established, resident record requirements modified, and medication regimen review reports required.
Informed consent for sensitive examinations of an anesthetized or unconscious patient, and penalty established.
Hospital payment rates modified.
Right established for patient or resident to choose to have support person present while receiving care or services.
Requirements for licensure and license renewal of ambulance services modified, permits from municipalities required to provide service in primary service area, rulemaking to modify primary service areas required, and establishment of performance standards required.
Board of Optometry required to establish scope of practice for optometrists.
Right established for patient or resident to choose to have support person present while receiving care or services.
Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board required to implement a communications and patient logistics platform, grants authorized, annual reports required, and money appropriated.
Maternal death studies conducted by the commissioner of health expanded to include maternal morbidity.
Cannabis finance and policy bill.
Health care entity transaction requirements established, health care transaction data reported, expiration date changed on moratorium conversion transactions, health system required to return charitable assets received from the state to the general fund, study required on regulation of transactions, and report required.
Health care entity transaction requirements established, health care transaction data reported, expiration date changed on moratorium conversion transactions, health system required to return charitable assets received from the state to the general fund, study required on regulation of transactions, and report required.
Health care entity transaction requirements established, health care transaction data reported, expiration date changed on moratorium conversion transactions, health system required to return charitable assets received from the state to the general fund, study required on regulation of transactions, and report required.
Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act of 2023; hospital nurse staffing and nurse workload committees requirements established, core staffing plan requirements modified, commissioner required to grade and publicly disclose hospital compliance, hospital preparedness and incident response action plan requirements modified, nursing facility employee scholarship eligibility modified, hospital nursing and health professional education loan forgiveness programs established/modified, and money appropriated.
Supervised practice of alcohol and drug counseling by former students allowed for limited time, HIV training requirements modified in substance use disorder treatment programs, withdrawal management license requirements modified, and substance use disorder treatment client record documentation requirements modified.
Lead drinking water service line replacement grant program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Procedure for sanctions modified, Department of Human Services background studies modified, applications and application process modified, license fees modified, commissioner access to recipient medical records modified, notice requirements for monetary recovery and sanctions modified, administrative reconsideration process modified, licensing data modified, email address privacy modified, and prone restraints in licensed or certified facilities prohibited.
Health policy bill.
Requirements established for commissioner of health to administer lifeline centers to respond to 988 contacts, 988 prepaid wireless fee and 988 telecommunications fee authorized, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Conversion therapy prohibited for children and vulnerable adults, medical assistance coverage prohibited, and misrepresentation of conversion therapy services or products prohibited.
Reproductive health care; health records release limited, health-related licensing board acts prohibited, background study disqualification prohibited, judgement enforcement prevented, subpoena enforcement restricted, lawsuit cause of action created, and extradition of persons charged in another state prohibited.
Commissioner of health fetal alcohol spectrum disorders prevention grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Adult adoptee access to their own original birth records and other adoption-related information governing provisions modified.
Medical assistance reimbursement rates increased for doula services.
Requirements for hospitals to screen patients for eligibility for health coverage or assistance established, affidavit of expert review required before debt collection activities, and hospital charges limited for uninsured treatments and services for patients.
Criminal penalties provided for health care practitioners who perform or cause to be performed specified practices on a minor under certain conditions.
William Shegstad Healthcare Advocates Act established, and civil penalties provided.
Analysis conducted of benefits and costs of universal health care system to assist legislature in comparing it to current public and private health care financing system, report required, and money appropriated.
Temporary hold on assessing fines against assisted living facilities established, and repayment of fines assessed against assisted living facilities required.
University of Minnesota; academic health care facilities designated as essential to university's public health mission.
Gross revenues tax on hospitals and health care providers repealed, and related technical changes made.
Health finance bill.
Mental health service rate increase bridge established.
Commissioner of health required to establish a program to monitor and assess the impact of long COVID; funding provided for community health workers, pandemic delayed preventative care, and long COVID; and money appropriated.
State required to pay medical examination costs for criminal sexual conduct victim, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of human services directed to establish a prescription drug purchasing program, program authority and eligibility requirements specified, and report required.
Partial-birth abortions and abortions in third trimester of pregnancy prohibited, licensure of abortion facilities required, notice to parent or guardian of minor on whom an abortion is performed required, unborn child who is born alive following an attempted abortion required to be treated as person under law, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance enrollees allowed to opt out of managed care enrollment.
Telehealth requirements modified, medical assistance reimbursement increased for protected transport services, grants established, and money appropriated.
Temporary permit requirements modified for respiratory therapist licensure.
Medications for prevention or treatment of HIV exempted from medical assistance and MinnesotaCare co-payments.
Syringe service providers authorized to possess, distribute, and dispose of syringes; and possession of hypodermic syringes authorized.
Medical assistance required to cover seizure detection devices.
Grants and a contract established for activities to sustain school-based health centers, and money appropriated.
Positive alternative grants program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance reimbursement rates increased for home care services.
Commissioner of human services procedures established related to the transition from the public health emergency, and money appropriated.
Reporting requirements modified by commissioner of health using data from trauma registry, funding provided to consolidate data on the transfer and care of trauma patients, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage modified for special education school social work services.
Operation of opioid prescribing improvement program modified, waiver process established, and contingent sunset provided.
Health professional education loan forgiveness program modified, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance required to cover recuperative care services.
Special Guerrilla Units Veterans and Families of the United States of America funding provided for health and well-being programming, and money appropriated.
Headway Emotional Health Services grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Department of Human Services reporting and licensing changes implemented for a provider licensing and reporting hub, and money appropriated.
Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Ambulance services; maximum amount reimbursed modified to ambulance services for volunteer education costs.
Rates increased to providers of board and lodging with special services.
Commercial health plan coverage of treatment at psychiatric residential treatment facilities required.
Coverage of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulations as an outpatient service established.
Minnesota prescription monitoring program reporting requirements and immunity from liability modified, Minnesota prescription monitoring program access expanded to allow pharmacists or dispensing practitioners to correct errors in program, program funding continued, and money appropriated.
Hennepin County; Community Action Partnership grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Programs to address health and human services workforce shortage expanded and established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Health plans required to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
Tobacco use prevention account established, and money appropriated.
Alzheimer's public information program established, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage of tobacco and nicotine cessation treatment modified and expanded.
Cancer reporting provisions changed.
MinnesotaCare eligibility provided for undocumented noncitizens.
Unrestricted access to services required for diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of rare diseases.
Child care, child safety and permanency, child support, economic assistance, deep poverty, housing and homelessness, behavioral health, medical education and research cost account, MinnesotaCare, Tribal Elder Office, background studies, and licensing governing provisions modified; and money appropriated.
Settling defendants added to opioid litigation statute.
Social worker title protection provisions modified.
Pilot program to reduce trauma from gun violence established, report required, and money appropriated.
Firefighting foam use prohibited, exemptions allowed, reports required, and money appropriated.
Public awareness campaign on health dangers of using skin-lightening products containing mercury and hydroquinone created.
Douglas County; supplemental housing support rate created for long-term residential facility.
Palliative Care Advisory Council member terms clarified, Palliative Care Advisory Council sunset eliminated, report required, and money appropriated.
Community solutions for healthy child development grant program established, and money appropriated.
Open discussion process created by which parties of a health care adverse incident may discuss potential outcomes.
Community solutions for healthy child development grant program established, and money appropriated.
Gender-Affirming Rights Act created.
Health care providers authorized to provide patients with health information and services that are medically accurate, evidence-based, and appropriate for the patient; and informed consent requirements before abortions may be performed repealed.
Commissioner of health required to award grants to health care entities for staff training on self-defense and de-escalation, infrastructure improvements, and IT system improvements; and money appropriated.
Home visiting services funding provided, and money appropriated.
Gender-Affirming Rights Act created.
Certification and practice requirements modified for community emergency medical technicians.
Assisted living facilities and services changes made.
Psychedelic medicine task force established, and report required.
Cost-sharing limited for prescription drugs and related medical supplies to treat chronic disease.
Payment rates increased for nonemergency medical transportation.
Medical assistance to cover pediatric zirconia crowns modified.
Fees provided and waived for certified birth records, identification cards, and driver's licenses for persons treated for substance use disorder; substance use disorder treatment plan review requirements modified; transition follow-up counseling provided; treatment rate and staffing requirements modified; temporary rate increases provided; and transition support service recommendations directed.
Task Force on Pregnancy Health and Substance Use Disorders established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Safe harbor shelter and housing grant program created, sexually exploited youth funding provided, and money appropriated.
Terminology for pregnant persons modified, standards for chemical dependency in pregnancy and prenatal substance use modified, prenatal substance use specified to not itself constitute neglect or maltreatment, reporting requirements modified, and informed consent requirements established for parent and newborn infant toxicology tests and drug or alcohol screenings.
Moratorium on green burials in certain locations established, and study required.
Licensure requirements modified for practice of medicine and acupuncture, and professional corporation rules repealed.
Medical assistance payment rate modified for dually certified organization serving American Indians and Alaska Natives, Indian Health Board grant provided, and money appropriated.
Definition for submerged closed-loop exchanger added, water supply well specified to include well containing submerged closed-loop heat exchanger, and submerged closed-loop heat exchanger requirements specified.
Health care guaranteed to be available and affordable for every Minnesotan; Minnesota Health Plan, Minnesota Health Board, Minnesota Health Fund, Office of Health Quality and Planning, ombudsman for patient advocacy, and auditor general for Minnesota Health Plan established; Affordable Care Act 1332 waiver requested; rulemaking authorized; and money appropriated.
Medical assistance and insurance coverage of psychiatric collaborative care model provided.
Grant provided for federally qualified health centers apprenticeship program, report to legislature required, and money appropriated.
Reporting requirements related to maternal and infant health expanded.
Revenue recapture provisions modified, and claims from hospitals and ambulance services disallowed.
Income definitions modified for housing support.
Right of hospitalized patients to receive treatment from their own doctors established.
Audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact created, and commissioner of health authorized to release data.
Identification requirements for insulin safety net program modified.
Board of Medical Practice membership modified, requirements for complaint review committee membership and processes established, requirements for information on provider profiles on Board of Medicine website established, requirements for posted information at points of patient contact established, audit required, and reports required.
Sale of premium cigar from movable place of business permitted.
Enteral nutrition and supplies payment methodology modified.
Children's cabinet modified; Department of Children, Youth, and Families established; Department of Education, Department of Human Services, and Department of Public Safety responsibilities transferred to Department of Children, Youth, and Families; reports required; rulemaking authorized; and money appropriated.
Pharmacy benefit manager and health carrier requirements established related to clinician-administered drugs.
Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to use prescription drug rebates and other compensation to benefit covered persons, and report required.
Federally qualified health center subsidies funding provided, and money appropriated.
Community paramedic certification requirements modified, and medical assistance coverage of community paramedic services modified.
Health care providers prohibited from asking patients or residents about firearms or ammunition.
Minnesota's schedules of controlled substances modified.
Formulary Committee membership modified, procedure modified for making changes to preferred drug list, and related changes made.
Minnesota health care programs special revenue fund established.
Commissioner of human services prohibited from rescinding public assistance benefits due to vaccination status.
Commissioner of human services allowed to enter into value-based purchasing arrangements with drug manufacturers.
Commissioner of health required to correct estimated property rate adjustment for nursing facility project.
Study on obesity in individuals with intellectual disabilities required, health and wellness pilot program for adults with intellectual disabilities established, report required, and money appropriated.
Insurance; network adequacy provided, and report required.
Victims of labor trafficking and labor exploitation services funding provided, and money appropriated.
Community health worker training program on Alzheimer's disease and dementia established.
Abortion regulating statutes repealed, sex offenses repealed, statutes governing the sale of articles and information and prohibiting advertisements repealed, limitation removed on performance of abortions at birth centers, language stricken regarding medical assistance coverage of abortion, limitation removed on MinnesotaCare coverage of abortion, and conforming changes made.
Lead testing and remediation requirements in schools modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Grant program modified to support pregnant people in carrying their pregnancies to term and new parents caring for babies after birth.
Abortion regulating statutes repealed, sex offenses repealed, statutes governing the sale of articles and information and prohibiting advertisements repealed, limitation removed on performance of abortions at birth centers, language stricken regarding medical assistance coverage of abortion, limitation removed on MinnesotaCare coverage of abortion, and conforming changes made.
No-cost diagnostic services and testing required following mammogram.
Central service technician requirements established.
Certified birth certificate fees for newborns eliminated.
Definitions for regulation of safe drinking water added.
Statewide drinking water safety action plan development funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.
No-cost diagnostic services and testing required following mammogram.
Nursing home change of ownership updated.
Definition added for medical assistance room and board rate, eligible grant fund uses modified, cultural and ethnic minority infrastructure grant program created, mental health grant programs created, transition from homelessness program created, housing supports program created for adults with serious mental illness, definition of supportive housing modified, and application requirements modified.
Nursing home moratorium process changed.
Investigative authority specified in response to reports of maltreatment of vulnerable adults in federally certified facilities.
Health insurance; preexisting condition limitations prohibited in Medicare supplement insurance policies, and Medicare supplement benefits governing provisions modified and added.
Health Care Affordability Board and Health Care Affordability Advisory Council established, monitoring of and recommendations related to health care market trends required, health care spending growth target program established, civil penalties provided, and transfers of funds required.
Commissioner required to adhere to Food and Drug Administration label requirements when making coverage and access determinations related to qualified drugs or biologic products.
Pharmacists authorized to prescribe, dispense, and administer hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for preexposure prophylaxis use, postexposure prophylaxis use, or treatment of COVID-19.
Consent for vaccination required, consent coercion and discrimination prohibited, and criminal penalties imposed.
Establishment of vaccine requirements prohibited, and exceptions provided.
Establishment of vaccine requirements prohibited, and exceptions provided.
Board of Pharmacy required to provide the central repository under contract to administer medication repository program with any legislative funding provided for the purpose, conforming changes made related to donations of over-the-counter medications, and money appropriated.
Enrollee cost-sharing eliminated under medical assistance and MinnesotaCare; and individual, small group, and State Employee Group Insurance Program plans prohibited from including cost-sharing.
Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority restructured and renamed as the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority, authority authorized to construct and finance health care facilities, and bonding capacity increased.
Local public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities funding provided, and money appropriated.
Summer health care intern program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Cremation of identifiable body parts provided.
Home care survey aligned with assisted living licensure survey.
Federal compliance for over-the-counter hearing aid provisions changed.
Housing support bed provisions modified.
Family planning services payment rates increased.
Independent informal dispute resolution process aligned.
Medical assistance hospice service coverage expanded to include room and board.
Transitional cost-sharing reduction, premium subsidy, small employer public option, and transitional health care credit established; MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded; premium scale modified; and alternative delivery and payment system recommendations required.
Grants supporting healthy development of babies during pregnancy and postpartum for families with members who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color funding provided; and money appropriated.
Health care providers required to provide patients with information about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis orally and in writing; health-related licensing boards allowed to discipline providers for violations.
Local enforcement of federal vaccine passports prohibited, and civil cause of action created.
Religious protections provided during emergency declarations.
Use of funds limited for state-sponsored health programs for funding abortions.
Medical and dental practices required to make available to the public their current standard charges, and commissioner of health authorized to establish a price comparison tool for items and services offered by medical and dental practices.
Home and community-based services workforce development grant eligibility modified, and workforce development grant money excluded from income for certain purposes.
Application and renewal fees increased for opiate drug wholesalers, opiate product fee established for opiate drug wholesalers, and sunset for opioid fees eliminated.
Payments made to health care providers disclosure required, self-insurer governing provision added, all-payer claims data provision changed, and transparency of health care payments report required.
Manufacturers required to report and maintain prescription drug prices, filing of health plan prescription drug formularies required, health care coverage provisions modified, prescription benefit tool requirements established, and prescription drug benefit transparency and disclosure required.
Medical and dental practices required to make available to the public their current standard charges, and commissioner of health authorized to establish a price comparison tool for items and services offered by medical and dental practices.
Separate medical assistance reimbursement provided for long-acting reversible contraceptives.
Anesthetized or unconscious patient informed consent for pelvic examinations provided, and penalty established.
Pregnant patient right established to have a designated support person present while receiving health care.
Board of Medical Practice discretion in investigating complaints against regulated person provided.
Hospital physical environment provisions modified.
Gross revenues tax on hospitals and health care providers repealed, and related technical changes made.
Veterinary technicians, veterinary assistants, and practice of veterinary technology regulated.
Voluntary well water testing program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Regulation of radon licensing activities moved from commissioner of health to commissioner of labor and industry, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance coverage expanded for adult dental services.
Administration of opiate antagonists for drug overdose provision changed.
Use of electronic identity verification for vital records added.
Definition of replacement added for vital records.
Third-party transport of medical cannabis expanded.
Rural health advisory committee membership expanded.
Renovation and lead hazard reduction provisions modified.
Generic or off-patent drugs; excessive price increases prohibited, attorney general authorized to take action against price increases, sale withdrawal prohibited, prescription drug affordability board and advisory council established, prescription drug cost reviews and remedies provided, and money appropriated.
Critical access dental infrastructure program established, and money appropriated.
Family planning grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Gross revenues tax on hospitals and health care providers repealed, and technical changes made.
Board of Sign Language Interpreters and Transliterators created, licensure required, and rulemaking authorized.
Requirement covering firearm data collection by commissioner of health repealed.
Disposition of money recovered from litigation or settlement of environmental permit violations provided.
Education outreach and public awareness campaign relating to uterine fibroids required.
Medical assistance payment rates for abortion and abortion-related services increased.
Protect Reproductive Options Act; fundamental right to reproductive health established.
Mortuary science internship requirements modified.
Minnesota Health Policy Commission established.
Reciprocal licensure requirements to practice mortuary science modified.
State agencies and local units of government prohibited from offering vaccine incentives.
Medical assistance coverage expanded to include prescription digital therapeutics.
Regulation of concentration and conversion of cannabinoids derived from hemp provided, regulation of cannabinoid transportation and testing provided, licensing of manufacturers and distributors provided, cannabis product regulations provided, enforcement of regulations provided, licensing guidelines established, gross receipts tax established, criminal penalties established, exclusive liquor stores authorized to sell products, and money appropriated.
Vaccine recipient bill of rights established.
Medical assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollee disenrollment procedures specified, 12-month continuous medical assistance eligibility provided for certain eligibility categories, and continuous medical assistance eligibility provided for children up to age six.
Parent or legal guardian required to be present for vaccine administration to a minor.
Cannabis; manufacturers allowed to distribute medical cannabis to Tribal medical cannabis program patients, registry program patients allowed to obtain medical cannabis from Tribal medical cannabis program, medical cannabis transportation by manufacturers registered with Tribal medical cannabis program provided, protections extended, and criminal penalty modified.
Contact tracing, digital contact tracing, immunizations, communicable disease testing, and required disclosure of information limits established; destruction of data required, mandatory digital contact tracing by employers prohibited, and civil penalties provided.
Nurses licensed under Nurse Licensure Compact allowed to practice nursing under specific circumstances.
Medical assistance enrollees allowed to opt out of managed care enrollment.
Commissioner of human services required to contract for administration of medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs, report required, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance, long-term services and supports, and other public assistance program applications report to the legislature required.
Medical assistance requirements and payment rates modified for nonemergency medical transportation.
Unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners prohibited from using hypnosis or hypnotherapy, background studies for registered naturopathic doctors required, and fee established.
Dentistry mailing list service fee added, and corrections made to dentistry licensing requirements.
Data collected under the all-payer claims database and uses of this data modified, and commissioner of health required to study and report on systems used by health plan companies and third-party administrators to pay health care providers.
Hospice respite and end-of-life care medical assistance benefit established for individuals under the age of 22.
Emmett Louis Till Victims Recovery Program established, and money appropriated.
State-sponsored health program use of funds limited for funding abortions.
Elevated blood lead concentration level lowered from ten micrograms of lead to 3.5 micrograms.
Out-of-state law or action application limited regarding the provision or receipt of reproductive health care services, and civil action established.
Health plans required to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
ALS caregiver support and respite service grants established, ALS service grant established, ALS research grant established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Provisions governing the Rare Disease Advisory Council modification
Physician assistants added to statutes, and references to advanced practice registered nurses modified.
Pharmacists authorized to administer drugs through intramuscular or subcutaneous administration; and drug monitoring devices authorized.
Self-measured blood pressure monitoring device coverage required, recipient and provider reimbursement required, and commissioner of human services required to create medical assistance data practices and clinical oversight policy.
Physician and nurse licensure applications board processing procedures establishment; Board of Medical Practice issuance of temporary permits to practice as a respiratory therapist, physicians and physician assistants requirement
Hospital construction moratorium exception project added.
Medicine and acupuncture licensure requirements modified, physician and physician assistant disciplinary action forms strengthened, and professional corporation rules repealed.
Podiatrist licensure requirement modified.
Substance Use Disorder Task Force on Maternal Health established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Patient or resident right to have support person present while receiving care or service established.
Veterinary technicians, veterinary assistants, and veterinary technology practice regulated.
Pregnant individuals experiencing preterm labor and preterm birth counseling support provided.
Hospital core staffing plans required, hospital staffing studies required, and money appropriated.
COVID-19; a resolution protecting against unconstitutional and medically irresponsible vaccine mandates.
Universal, voluntary home visiting program for families with infants established, and money appropriated.
PFAS prohibited in ski wax.
Residential lead service line replacement grant program established, and money appropriated.
COVID-19; vaccine requirement prohibited, and exceptions provided.
Well water testing program provided, and money appropriated.
Lead in drinking water testing and remediation provided, and money appropriated.
Maternal death studies expanded to include maternal morbidity.
Physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant in-person appointment required before provision of abortion-inducing drug.
Abortion facility licensure required, licensing fee required, and money appropriated.
School lead testing and remediation requirements modified, report required, and money appropriated.
Health; various health related provisions changed, and money appropriated.
Mental health additional professionals made eligible for loan forgiveness under the health professional education loan forgiveness program, mental health provider supervision grant program and mental health professional scholarship grant program established, qualifications modified for case managers, and money appropriated.
Nonemergency medical transportation payment rates increased.
Emmett Louis Till Victims Recovery Program established.
COVID-19; immunization status vaccine passport requirement prohibited.
Paid family, pregnancy, bonding, and applicant's serious medical condition benefits provided; employment leaves regulated and required; data classified; rulemaking authorized; and money appropriated.
Prescription drug and medical supplies co-payment for chronic disease treatment limited.
Preliminary application procedure established for individuals seeking professional licenses, licensing boards permitted to charge application fees, appeals authorized, reports required, and money appropriated.
Long-term care protection and support activities funding provided, and money appropriated.
Physician refusal to comply with patient's health care directive procedures established.
Small facility assisted living licensure governing provisions modified, and licensed practical nurse scope of practice restrictions eliminated.
Opioid settlement proceed deposit and allocation provided, two accounts established in the opiate epidemic response fund, separate opioid account in the state treasury eliminated, time frame modified for eliminating the opioid manufacturer registration fee and reducing license fees, and municipal claims barred against litigants in settled opioid cases.
Board of Pharmacy required to provide central repository under contract to administer medication repository program with any legislative funding, and over-the-counter medication donation conforming changes made.
Seizure detection device medical assistance coverage required.
Intractable pain definition modified, and controlled substance prescription for treatment criteria modified.
PFAS prohibited in cookware.
PFAS prohibited in cosmetics.
Specialty and guest dentist licensure requirements modified, license and registration certificate display and procedure requirements modified, dental therapy licensure by credentials provided, application and initial fees modified, civil penalties provided, and money appropriated.
Medical assistance enrollees allowed to opt our of managed care enrollment.
Health care; enrollee required to receive any rebates and discounts accrued directly or indirectly to health carriers.
Medical assistance; 12-month continuous eligibility provided for person 20 years of age or younger.
Minnesota baby steps home visiting program established, and money appropriated.
Lead drinking water service line replacement grant established, publicly owned and privately owned lead service line inventory grant established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Health care provisions modified for consumer information, foster care, asset limitations, annuities, telehealth services, managed care, clinical trials, and trusts.
William Shegstad Healthcare Advocates Act established, and civil penalties provided.
Health Care Affordability Board and Health Care Affordability Advisory Council established, health care market trend monitoring and recommendations required, health care spending growth target programs established, reports required, civil penalties provided, and fund transfers required.
Nursing facility grants provided, and money appropriated.
Child care worker premium assistance program created, and report required.
Trauma-informed service priority added, sexual exploitation and trafficking study created and funding provided, funding provided for sexually exploited youth, and money appropriated.
Vaccination of minor consent of a parent or guardian required.
Elevated blood lead concentration level lowered from ten micrograms of lead to 3.5 micrograms
State agencies and local units of government prohibited from offering vaccine incentives.
No-cost diagnostic services and testing following a mammogram required.
No-cost diagnostic services and testing following a mammogram required.
Cannabis; manufacturers allowed to distribute medical cannabis to Tribal medical cannabis program patients, transportation of medical cannabis provided by manufacturers registered with a Tribal medical cannabis program, protections extended, and criminal penalty modified.
Insurance; enrollee's contribution toward out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing calculation requirements set.
Telemedicine reimbursement rates reduced, and capitation rate modified.
Child mental health training program for pediatric providers in outpatient primary care clinic funding provided, and money appropriated.
Cannabinoid product regulation provided, sale of cannabinoid containing products limited to individuals 21 years of age or older, cannabinoid product labeling required to contain a barcode or matrix barcode, additional requirements provided for edible cannabinoid products, food definition modified, and cannabinoid containing products that meet regulation requirements established as not controlled substances.
Medical assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollee disenrollment procedures specified, and 12-month continuous medical assistance eligibility provided.
Mental health cultural community continuing education grant program modified.
Lead hazard reduction and renovation provisions modified.
Cannabinoid product regulation provided, sale of cannabinoid containing products limited to individuals 21 years of age or older, cannabinoid product labeling required to contain a barcode or matrix barcode, additional requirements provided for edible cannabinoid products, food definition modified, and cannabinoid containing products that meet regulation requirements established as not controlled substances.
Commissioner of health required to study issues of statewide register development for provider orders for life-sustaining treatment, and report required.
Commissioner of health directed to modify requirement to obtain Department of Health J-1 visa waiver program recommendations.
Cannabis; manufacturers allowed to distribute medical cannabis to Tribal medical cannabis program patients, transportation of medical cannabis provided by manufacturers registered with a Tribal medical cannabis program, protections extended, and criminal penalty modified.
Obesity study in individuals with intellectual disabilities required, adults with intellectual disabilities health and wellness pilot program established, report required, and money appropriated.
Health plan companies, public hospitals, and the Board of Medical Practice prohibited from requiring physicians to maintain board certification.
Nonprofit health care entity conversion transactions prohibited, nonprofit health care entity required to provided attorney general notice before entering into conversion transaction, penalties and remedies authorized, and conversion transaction moratorium extended.
Community water system required to inventory service lines and establish plans to replace lead service lines by 2023; notices to customers, consumers, and owners required; reports required; rulemaking authorized; and money appropriated.
Postnatal health care coverage specified.
Pharmacists authorized to prescribe, dispense, and administer drugs to prevent the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus; and pharmacists authorized to order, conduct, and interpret laboratory tests necessary for therapy that uses drugs to prevent the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus.
Community restorative antiviolence program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Marriage and family therapist, licensed professional clinical counselor, and social worker supervision requirements modified.
Opioid crisis response, health care, and health insurance access governing provisions modified; forecast adjustments made; reports required; money transferred; technical and conforming changes made; fund allocated; grants established; and money appropriated.
Commissioner of health required to award grants to health care entities for programs improving health care professionals mental health, and money appopriated.
Pharmacist services equal coverage required, and medical assistance and MinnesotaCare requirements set for coverage and payment of pharmacy services.
Health care provider payment disclosure required, all-payer claims data provision changed, and health care payment transparency report required.
Prescription drug for mental illness treatment prior authorization prohibited in medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs.
Music education online access for students and children grant program created, and money appropriated.
Emergency medical service course grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Abortion; terms defined, penalties and remedies provided, persons permitted to maintain action, injunctive relief provided, attorney fee provisions authorized, and specified party anonymity provided.
Cancer reporting provisions changed.
Health care provider payment disclosure required, all-payer claims data provision changed, and health care payment transparency report required.
Electronic monitoring definition modified, home care and assisted living program advisory council provisions modified, and assisted living licensure provisions modified.
Human services forecast adjustments made, and money appropriated.
Prescription drug price transparency provisions modified.
African-born immigrant health disparity research provided, task force established, and money appropriated.
Nursing home change of ownership provisions changed.
Medical cannabis business licensure established, and medical cannabis manufacturer registration and operations phased out.
Medical cannabis manufacturer registration and registration renewal governing provisions modified.
Minnesota Board of Pharmacy requested to establish pharmacogenomics (PGx) task force, report required, and money appropriated.
Transitional cost-sharing reduction, premium subsidy, small employers public option, and transitional health care credit established; MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded; premium scale modified; and recommendations required for alternative delivery and payment system.
MinnesotaCare and medical assistance dental payment rate rebase required.
Board of Medical Practice discretion in regulating person complaint investigation provided.
Statutory references updated to include advanced practice registered nurses.
Commissioner of health directed to issue grants for drug overdose prevention and substance use prevention and infectious disease prevention activities, and reports required.
Pharmacists required to dispense prescription using audible container label or braille container for visually impaired or blind patients.
Commissioner of human services required to establish dental home pilot project, project criteria specified, report required, and money appropriated.
Local and regional emergency medical services grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
Hospital pricing transparency required.
Race and ethnicity added to nondiscrimination in access to transplants.
Ambulance services payment rates modified, and money appropriated.
Uterine fibroids research and education required, uterine fibroid database established, and money appropriated.
Transitional cost-sharing reduction, premium subsidy, small employers public option, and transitional health care credit established; MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded; premium scale modified; and recommendations required for alternative delivery and payment system.
Transitional cost-sharing reduction, premium subsidy, small employers public option, and transitional health care credit established; MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded; premium scale modified; and recommendations required for alternative delivery and payment system.
PFAS prohibited in juvenile products.
Health professional education loan forgiveness program expanded, commissioner of health required to award grants to cover supervision requirement meeting costs, and money appropriated.
Critical access dental infrastructure program established, and money appropriated.
State agencies and departments; various provisions modified relating to Department of Health, water supply systems and wastewater treatment facilities, education and loan forgiveness, law enforcement, and drug overdose and substance use; reports required; and money appropriated.
COVID-19; vaccine mandate establishment prohibited.
Comprehensive health association modified, Minnesota premium security plan modified, health insurance governing provisions modified, additional coverage under health plans required, Mental Health Parity and Substance Abuse Accountability Office established, proposal for public option required, report required, money transferred, and money appropriated.
Prescription monitoring program reporting, access, and other requirements modified.
Commissioner of human services required to contract for medical assistance administration and MinnesotaCare program, report required, and money appropriated.
Midwife licensure established by nursing board, and criminal penalties provided.
Medical assistance coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing (rWGS) testing required.
Professional counselor interstate compact established.
Tobacco and nicotine cessation treatment medical assistance coverage expanded.
Prescription digital therapeutics pilot project required, report required, and money appropriated.
COVID-19; integrated health partnership demonstration project shared loss mitigated.
COVID--19; Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine prescription authorized under specified conditions.
Landlord radon testing and providing disclosures required, and penalties and remedies provided.
Licensed pharmacist authority to initiate, order, and administer vaccines and medical and laboratory tests expanded; and medical assistance coverage required.
Physical therapy practice provisions modified.
Long-acting reversible contraceptive medical assistance reimbursement provided.
ST elevation myocardial infarction response and treatment requirement provisions changed.
Health professional education loan forgiveness program modified.
Dead body removal from place of death by transfer care specialist authorized.
Dental restorative procedures performed by licensed dental hygienist or licensed dental assistant modified.
Long-term care facility resident assessment case mix classification amended.
Hospice respite and end-of-life care medical assistance benefit for individual under age of 22 established.
Patient or resident right to have support person present while receiving care or service established.
Discrimination based on vaccine status or immunity passport prohibited.
Cannabis; commissioner of health required to apply for federal Schedule I exemption for medical use.
Number of dentists serving medical assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees report required by human services commissioner.
Medical assistance income and spenddown limits increased for persons with disabilities and persons age 65 and over.
Antigen test and KN95 respirator and similar respirator distribution program established, and money appropriated.
Pediatric home-based enteral nutrition service established as medical assistance covered service.
Local and Tribal public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities funding provided, and money appropriated.
Transitional cost-sharing reduction, premium subsidy, small employer public option, and transitional health care credit established; MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded; premium scale modified; and recommendations for alternative delivery and payment system required.
Cooper/Sams volunteer ambulance program report of service reporting requirement modified.
Health record retention requirements established for physicians who perform eye surgery, fee established, and data classified.
Administration of the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders prevention grants transferred to the Department of Health, base general fund amount established for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders prevention grants, base level adjustments made for health improvement in certain fiscal years, and report required.
Nurse Licensure Compact establishment and appropriation
Hospital patient discharge screening requirements established for health coverage or assistance eligibility.
Data collected under the all-payer claims database and uses of this data modified, and study and report required on systems used by health plan companies and third-party administrators to pay health care providers.
Pregnant patient right to have designated support person present while receiving health care established.
Health Equity and Leadership Council created, and Rural Health Advisory Committee membership specified.
Community solutions for health child development grant program established, and money appropriated.
Medical examinations or procedures for minors awards and incentives prohibited.
Private residential water supply wells program established for contaminants and to make payments for costs to remediate contaminated wells, rulemaking authorized, data classified, reports required, penalties established, and money appropriated.
Licensed health care providers required to obtain continuing education credits in racial health disparity.
Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority restructured and renamed as the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority, health care facility construction and financing by authority authorized, and bond capacity increased.
Guest body art applicant temporary licensure provision amended.
Medical cannabis provisions changed.
Radiation hazard definition modified.
Medical cannabis transport staff modified.
Medical cannabis transportation to testing laboratory by third-party testing laboratory staff allowed.
Health record of minor access by parent, guardian, or other person circumstances modified.
Diagnostic imaging facility definition modified.
Hospital construction moratorium repealed.
Naturopathic doctor licensure required, and scope of practice modified.
Ectodermal dysplasias treatment coverage required.
Palliative care definition modified relating to nursing homes.
Vaccine passport, vaccine pass, and vaccine credentials for immunization status requirement prohibited.
Palliative Care Advisory Council funding provided, and money appropriated.
Universal health care system benefit and cost analysis conducted to assist the legislature in comparing it to the current health care financing system, report required, and money appropriated.
Manufacturers required to report and maintain prescription drug prices, health plan prescription drug formularies filing required, health care coverage provisions modified, prescription benefit tool requirements established, and prescription drug benefit transparency and disclosure required.
Manufacturers required to report and maintain prescription drug prices, health plan prescription drug formularies filing required, health care coverage provisions modified, prescription benefit tool requirements established, and prescription drug benefit transparency and disclosure required.
Pharmacists permitted to dispense ivermectin according to standing order, personal financial benefit prohibited, informational sheet provision required, and licensing board detrimental action prohibited.
Abortion; legal and constitutional rights provided beginning at conception.
Dental hygienist collaborative agreement requirements modified.
Physician and nurse licensure application board processing procedure established, and Board of Medical Practice required to issue respiratory therapist temporary permits.
Mobile nurse clinic in rural and urban areas funding provided, and money appropriated.
Health professional education loan forgiveness program modified, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of human services allowed to enter into value-based purchasing arrangements with drug manufacturers.
Speech-language pathology assistant licensure requirements established, background check requirements established, and supervision provided for those working in schools.
Health care providers administering vaccines required to disclose information to patients, adverse reactions to vaccines reports required, and content of an informed consent form specified.
Minnesota Provider Screening and Enrollment portal funding provided, and money appropriated.
Rare Disease Advisory Council governing provisions modified, revisor or statutes instructed to renumber statutes, and money appropriated.
Ambulance service volunteer education cost requirement reimbursement modified.
MinnesotaCare eligibility for undocumented noncitizen provided.
Sign language interpreters and transliterators board and licensure established.
Licensed acupuncture practitioner requirements and scope of practice modified.
Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage established.
Rural ambulance service staffing grant program established, and money appropriated.
Audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact created, and commissioner of health authorized to release data.
Ambulance service mutual aid agreement requirement modified.
Medical cannabis program time period modified for patient to resubmit qualifying medical condition certification.
Health Care Commission established.
Human remains conversion to basic elements using natural organic reduction permitted.
Department of Health required to enter a contract for information technology projects.
Human services commissioner allowed to reinstate waivers and modifications, and out-of-state health care professionals allowed to temporarily provide services in Minnesota under out-of-state credentials.
Abortions prohibited when fetal heartbeat is detected, and civil actions provided.
Chemical abortion disclosures required.
Abortion-inducing drug in-person appointments required.
COVID-19; governor granted temporary emergency authority to grant waivers.
A House resolution opposing the criminalization of physicians providing care within their
Enrollee cost-sharing under medical assistance and MinnesotaCare eliminated; and individual, small group, and State Employee Group Insurance Program plan prohibited from including cost-sharing.
Birth record process established for persons eligible for medical assistance.
Medical assistance reimbursement for protected transport services increased, protected transport start-up grants provided, and money appropriated.
Substance use disorder treatment various provisions modified.
Dental provider agreement term inclusion prohibited, and disclosures required.
Dental benefit plan contract requirements modified, and third party permitted access to a dental provider contract.
Vaccine requirement establishment prohibited, and exception provided.
Music therapists licensure created, and fees and civil penalties imposed.
Hospital construction or modification moratorium exception authorized.
Statewide drinking water safety action plan development funding provided, reports required, and money appropriated.
Mandatory immunization damage cause of action established.
Local enforcement of federal vaccine passports prohibited, and civil cause of action created.
Government vaccine mandate enforcement prohibited, and proof of presence of natural antibodies allowed as an alternative to vaccination.
Religious protection provided during emergency declaration.
School-based health center activity grant established, and money appropriated.
Climate and health program funding provided, and money appropriated.
School-based health clinic funding provided, and money appropriated.
Adult dental services medical assistance coverage expanded.
City water plan safety funding provided, and money appropriated.
Medical cannabis program patient enrollment fees modified.
Board of Dentistry required to adopt rules with detailed infection control requirements.
Home and community-based employee scholarship program modified to permit loan forgiveness, and employment requirements temporarily modified for nursing assistants.
Prescription digital therapeutics medical assistance coverage inclusion expanded.
Change of sex on original birth certificate authorized.
Nurse Licensure Compact created, and money appropriated.
Parent or legal guardian required to be present for vaccine administration to a minor.
COVID-19; public health disaster response established, and peacetime emergency declared in Executive Order No. 20-01 terminated.
A resolution restoring patient protection laws; urging certain federal agencies to repeal waivers of antitrust, anti-fee-splitting, and anti-self-referral laws and urging an amendment to federal law to require that clinics and hospitals have freedom to contract or not contract for payment contingent on the volume of orders for care.
COVID-19; school staff vaccine requirement established.
Abortion; notice required whether medication, medical equipment, or device is developed using aborted fetal tissue; and civil remedies provided.
Hospital construction or critical access hospital modification moratorium exceptions authorized.
Health freedom sanctuary established, governor's peacetime emergency powers limited, and mandatory vaccinations and school district mask requirements prohibited.
Ivermectin required to be available over the counter.
COVID-19 and influenza vaccine requirements prohibited.
Ivermectin prescription limitations prohibited, and ivermectin prescription dispensing required.
Health care providers required to report adverse vaccination events and disclose information.
Vaccine recipient bill of rights established.
Health Care Commission established.
Hospital construction moratorium exception provided.
Assisted living licensure requirements for new construction modified.
Health care providers administering vaccines required to disclose information to patients, adverse reactions to vaccines reports required, and informed consent form content specified.
Omnibus health and human services policy and finance bill.
Dispensing fee increased for prescription drugs in the medical assistance program.
COVID-19; minors authorized to consent to vaccines, and vaccine consent disclosures modified.
Omnibus cannabis bill.
Informed consent provided for pelvic examinations of an anesthetized or unconscious patient, and penalties established.
Commissioner of human services required to improve midwifery access.
Licensed pharmacist authority expanded to initiate, order, and administer vaccines and medical and laboratory tests; and medical assistance coverage required.
Obesity; commissioner of health required to study and make recommendations on addressing high obesity rates among individuals with intellectual disabilities, and money appropriated.
Minnesota Telehealth Act; task force on creating a person-centered telepresence strategy establishment
COVID-19; dentist authority to administer vaccines modified.
Critical access dental provider reimbursement increased.
Tribal cannabis program recognized, and Tribal medical cannabis programs coordinated with state medical cannabis programs.
COVID-19; a resolution urging increased action to address the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives in Minnesota by entering into medical and scientific collaboration with the nation of Cuba; memorializing Congress and the President of the United States to remove restrictions on collaboration.
Tribal cannabis program recognized, and Tribal medical cannabis programs coordinated with state medical cannabis programs.
Adoption provisions modified, safe place for newborns provisions added, child welfare program provisions modified, and Northstar kinship assistance provisions modified.
Patient who reached age of majority permitted to request medical records be deleted after seven years have passed since last entry.
COVID-19; death audit required, and report required.
COVID-19; legislative auditor required to examine patient discharge from hospital to nursing homes, report required, and money appropriated.
Commissioner of health required to make human herpesvirus cytomegalovirus information available.
Primary Care Case Management program established, health care provider direct state payment authorized, and money appropriated.
Health care providers required to obtain direct secure messaging address.
Statewide public-private telepresence strategy development task force created, and report required.
Federally qualified health center subsidy funding provided, and money appropriated.
Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board operation funding provided, and money appropriated.
Timely provider credentialing by health plan company requirements established.
Dentists added to Rural Health Advisory Committee membership.
Mental health and developmental disabilities ombudsman funding provided, and money appropriated.
Department of Human Services fiscal year 2021 forecasted program appropriations adjusted.
Hot tub public pool regulations exempted.
COVID-19; bar and restaurant restrictions modified, and money appropriated for payments to bars and restaurants.
Mental health services; various provisions modified, including payment process, health professional education loan forgiveness, mental health professional licensing board and practitioner requirements, and clinical trainee supervision; reports required; and money appropriated.
Health department provisions changed.
Health, safety, and community engagement program funding provided; and money appropriated.