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ND HCR3015
Concurrent Resolution
Status
4/16/2021
Primary Sponsor
Gretchen Dobervich
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AI Summary
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Directs the Legislative Management to study the feasibility and desirability of implementing a community health worker program in North Dakota.
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Study must include recommendations on defining community health workers, their scope of work, training infrastructure, and certification processes with related curricula and continuing education requirements.
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Study must address strategies for making community health worker services Medicaid-reimbursed and examine private insurers' use of community health workers.
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Recognizes community health workers as evidence-based approach to chronic disease prevention and management that reduces nonemergent emergency and specialty service utilization.
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Requires Legislative Management to report findings, recommendations, and any necessary implementing legislation to the Sixty-eighth Legislative Assembly.
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to consider studying the feasibility and desirability of implementing a community health worker program, including recommendations regarding a definition of a community health worker, the scope of work of a community health worker, the infrastructure for training of community health workers, the development of a community health worker certification process and related training curriculum and continuing education requirements, a strategy for community health worker services being Medicaid-reimbursed services, and private insurers' use of community health workers.
Last Action
Filed with Secretary Of State 04/16
4/16/2021