(a) Effective July 1, 2001, within the limits of appropriations specifically for this purpose, the commissioner shall provide an annual inflation adjustment for the providers listed in paragraph (c). The index for the inflation adjustment must be based on the change in the Employment Cost Index for Private Industry Workers - Total Compensation forecasted by Data Resources, Inc., as forecasted in the fourth quarter of the calendar year preceding the fiscal year. The commissioner shall increase reimbursement or allocation rates by the percentage of this adjustment, and county boards shall adjust provider contracts as needed.
(b) The commissioner of management and budget shall include an annual inflationary adjustment in reimbursement rates for the providers listed in paragraph (c) using the inflation factor specified in paragraph (a) as a budget change request in each biennial detailed expenditure budget submitted to the legislature under section 16A.11.
(c) The annual adjustment under paragraph (a) shall be provided for home and community-based waiver services for persons with developmental disabilities under section 256B.501; home and community-based waiver services for the elderly under chapter 256S; waivered services under community access for disability inclusion under section 256B.49; community alternative care waivered services under section 256B.49; brain injury waivered services under section 256B.49; nursing services and home health services under section 256B.0625, subdivision 6a; personal care services and nursing supervision of personal care services under section 256B.0625, subdivision 19a; home care nursing services under section 256B.0625, subdivision 7; day training and habilitation services for adults with developmental disabilities under sections 252.41 to 252.46; physical therapy services under section 256B.0625, subdivision 8; occupational therapy services under section 256B.0625, subdivision 8a; speech-language therapy services under Minnesota Rules, part 9505.0390; respiratory therapy services under Minnesota Rules, part 9505.0295; alternative care services under section 256B.0913; adult residential program grants under section 245.73; adult and family community support grants under Minnesota Rules, parts 9535.1700 to 9535.1760; semi-independent living services under section 252.275 including SILS funding under county social services grants formerly funded under chapter 256I; and community support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing adults with mental illness who use or wish to use sign language as their primary means of communication.
1999 c 245 art 4 s 79; 2005 c 56 s 1; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109; 2012 c 216 art 14 s 2; 2014 c 275 art 1 s 68; 2014 c 291 art 9 s 5; 2015 c 78 art 6 s 31; 2016 c 158 art 1 s 134; art 2 s 102; 2019 c 54 art 2 s 39
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 245 - 267 — Public Welfare And Related Activities
Chapter 256B — Medical Assistance For Needy Persons
Section 256B.011 — Policy For Childbirth And Abortion Funding.
Section 256B.02 — Definitions.
Section 256B.021 — Medical Assistance Reform Waiver.
Section 256B.03 — Payments To Vendors.
Section 256B.035 — Managed Care.
Section 256B.037 — Prospective Payment Of Dental Services.
Section 256B.0371 — Performance Benchmarks For Dental Access; Contingent Dental Administrator.
Section 256B.038 — Provider Rate Increases After June 30, 1999.
Section 256B.04 — Duties Of State Agency.
Section 256B.041 — Centralized Disbursement Of Medical Assistance Payments.
Section 256B.042 — Third-party Liability.
Section 256B.043 — Cost-containment Efforts.
Section 256B.05 — Administration By County Agencies.
Section 256B.051 — Housing Stabilization Services.
Section 256B.055 — Eligibility Categories.
Section 256B.056 — Eligibility Requirements For Medical Assistance.
Section 256B.0561 — Periodic Data Matching To Evaluate Continued Eligibility.
Section 256B.057 — Eligibility Requirements For Special Categories.
Section 256B.0571 — Long-term Care Partnership Program.
Section 256B.0575 — Availability Of Income For Institutionalized Persons.
Section 256B.058 — Treatment Of Income Of Institutionalized Spouse.
Section 256B.059 — Treatment Of Assets When A Spouse Is Institutionalized.
Section 256B.0594 — Payment Of Benefits From An Annuity.
Section 256B.0595 — Prohibitions On Transfer; Exceptions.
Section 256B.06 — Eligibility; Migrant Workers; Citizenship.
Section 256B.061 — Eligibility; Retroactive Effect; Restrictions.
Section 256B.0615 — Mental Health Certified Peer Specialist.
Section 256B.0616 — Mental Health Certified Family Peer Specialist.
Section 256B.0621 — Covered Services: Targeted Case Management Services.
Section 256B.0622 — Assertive Community Treatment And Intensive Residential Treatment Services.
Section 256B.0623 — Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services Covered.
Section 256B.0624 — Crisis Response Services Covered.
Section 256B.0625 — Covered Services.
Section 256B.0626 — Estimation Of 50th Percentile Of Prevailing Charges.
Section 256B.063 — Cost Sharing.
Section 256B.0631 — Medical Assistance Co-payments.
Section 256B.0635 — Continued Eligibility In Special Circumstances.
Section 256B.0636 — Controlled Substance Prescriptions; Abuse Prevention.
Section 256B.0637 — Presumptive Eligibility; Treatment For Breast Or Cervical Cancer.
Section 256B.0638 — Opioid Prescribing Improvement Program.
Section 256B.064 — Sanctions; Monetary Recovery.
Section 256B.0641 — Recovery Of Overpayments.
Section 256B.0642 — Federal Financial Participation.
Section 256B.0643 — Vendor Request For Contested Case Proceeding.
Section 256B.0644 — Reimbursement Under Other State Health Care Programs.
Section 256B.0646 — Minnesota Restricted Recipient Program; Personal Care Assistance Services.
Section 256B.065 — Social Security Amendments.
Section 256B.0651 — Home Care Services.
Section 256B.0652 — Authorization And Review Of Home Care Services.
Section 256B.0653 — Home Health Agency Services.
Section 256B.0654 — Home Care Nursing.
Section 256B.0658 — Housing Access Grants.
Section 256B.0659 — Personal Care Assistance Program.
Section 256B.0671 — Covered Mental Health Services.
Section 256B.0711 — Quality Self-directed Services Workforce.
Section 256B.072 — Performance Reporting And Quality Improvement System.
Section 256B.073 — Electronic Visit Verification.
Section 256B.075 — Disease Management Programs.
Section 256B.0751 — Health Care Homes.
Section 256B.0753 — Payment Restructuring; Care Coordination Payments.
Section 256B.0754 — Payment Reform.
Section 256B.0755 — Integrated Health Partnership Demonstration Project.
Section 256B.0756 — Hennepin And Ramsey Counties Pilot Program.
Section 256B.0757 — Coordinated Care Through A Health Home.
Section 256B.0758 — Health Care Delivery Pilot Program.
Section 256B.0759 — Substance Use Disorder Demonstration Project.
Section 256B.076 — Case Management Services.
Section 256B.08 — Application.
Section 256B.09 — Investigations.
Section 256B.0911 — Long-term Care Consultation Services.
Section 256B.0913 — Alternative Care Program.
Section 256B.0914 — Conflicts Of Interest Related To Medicaid Expenditures.
Section 256B.0916 — Expansion Of Home And Community-based Services.
Section 256B.0917 — Home And Community-based Services For Older Adults.
Section 256B.0918 — Employee Scholarship Costs.
Section 256B.0919 — Adult Foster Care And Family Adult Day Care.
Section 256B.092 — Services For Persons With Developmental Disabilities.
Section 256B.0921 — Home And Community-based Services Innovation Pool.
Section 256B.0922 — Essential Community Supports.
Section 256B.0924 — Targeted Case Management Services.
Section 256B.0926 — Admission Review Team; Intermediate Care Facilities.
Section 256B.093 — Services For Persons With Traumatic Brain Injuries.
Section 256B.094 — Child Welfare Targeted Case Management Services.
Section 256B.0943 — Children's Therapeutic Services And Supports.
Section 256B.0945 — Services For Children With Severe Emotional Disturbance.
Section 256B.0946 — Children's Intensive Behavioral Health Services.
Section 256B.0947 — Intensive Rehabilitative Mental Health Services.
Section 256B.0948 — Foster Care Rate Limits.
Section 256B.0949 — Early Intensive Developmental And Behavioral Intervention Benefit.
Section 256B.095 — Quality Assurance System Established.
Section 256B.0951 — Quality Assurance Commission.
Section 256B.0952 — County Duties; Quality Assurance Teams.
Section 256B.0953 — Quality Assurance Process.
Section 256B.0954 — Certain Persons Defined As Mandated Reporters.
Section 256B.0955 — Duties Of The Commissioner Of Human Services.
Section 256B.097 — Regional And Systems Improvement For Minnesotans Who Have Disabilities.
Section 256B.12 — Legal Representation.
Section 256B.121 — Treble Damages.
Section 256B.14 — Relative's Responsibility.
Section 256B.15 — Claims Against Estates.
Section 256B.17 — Transfers Of Property.
Section 256B.18 — Methods Of Administration.
Section 256B.19 — Division Of Cost.
Section 256B.194 — Federal Payments.
Section 256B.196 — Intergovernmental Transfers; Hospital And Physician Payments.
Section 256B.197 — Intergovernmental Transfers; Inpatient Hospital Payments.
Section 256B.1973 — Directed Payment Arrangements.
Section 256B.198 — Payments For Non-hospital-based Governmental Health Centers.
Section 256B.199 — Payments Reported By Governmental Entities.
Section 256B.20 — County Appropriations.
Section 256B.21 — Change Of Residence.
Section 256B.22 — Compliance With Social Security Act.
Section 256B.23 — Use Of Federal Funds.
Section 256B.24 — Prohibitions.
Section 256B.25 — Payments To Certified Facilities.
Section 256B.26 — Agreements With Other State Departments.
Section 256B.27 — Medical Assistance; Cost Reports.
Section 256B.30 — Health Care Facility Report.
Section 256B.32 — Facility Fee Payment.
Section 256B.35 — Personal Needs Allowance; Persons In Certain Facilities.
Section 256B.36 — Special Personal Allowance For Certain Individuals.
Section 256B.37 — Private Insurance Policies, Causes Of Action.
Section 256B.39 — Avoidance Of Duplicate Payments.
Section 256B.40 — Subsidy For Abortions Prohibited.
Section 256B.421 — Definitions.
Section 256B.431 — Rate Determination.
Section 256B.434 — Payment Rates And Procedures; Contracts And Agreements.
Section 256B.439 — Long-term Care Quality Profiles.
Section 256B.48 — Conditions For Participation.
Section 256B.49 — Home And Community-based Service Waivers For Persons With Disabilities.
Section 256B.4905 — Home And Community-based Services Policy Statement.
Section 256B.4911 — Consumer-directed Community Supports.
Section 256B.4912 — Home And Community-based Waivers; Providers And Payment.
Section 256B.4914 — Home And Community-based Services Waivers; Rate Setting.
Section 256B.492 — Home And Community-based Settings For People With Disabilities.
Section 256B.493 — Adult Foster Care Planned Closure.
Section 256B.501 — Rates For Community-based Services For Persons With Disabilities.
Section 256B.5011 — Icf/dd Reimbursement System Effective October 1, 2000.
Section 256B.5012 — Icf/dd Payment System Implementation.
Section 256B.5013 — Payment Rate Adjustments.
Section 256B.5014 — Reporting Requirements.
Section 256B.5015 — Pass-through Of Other Services Costs.
Section 256B.51 — Nursing Homes; Cost Of Home Care.
Section 256B.69 — Prepaid Health Plans.
Section 256B.6903 — Ombudsperson For Managed Care.
Section 256B.691 — Risk-based Transportation Payments.
Section 256B.692 — County-based Purchasing.
Section 256B.6925 — Enrollee Information.
Section 256B.6926 — State Monitoring.
Section 256B.6927 — Quality Assessment And Performance.
Section 256B.6928 — Managed Care Rates And Payments.
Section 256B.693 — State-operated Services; Managed Care.
Section 256B.694 — Sole-source Or Single-plan Managed Care Contract.
Section 256B.70 — Demonstration Project Waiver.
Section 256B.71 — Social Health Maintenance Organization Demonstration.
Section 256B.72 — Commissioner's Recovery Of Overpayments.
Section 256B.73 — Demonstration Project For Uninsured Low-income Persons.
Section 256B.74 — Special Payments.
Section 256B.75 — Hospital Outpatient Reimbursement.
Section 256B.756 — Reimbursement Rates For Births.
Section 256B.758 — Reimbursement For Doula Services.
Section 256B.76 — Physician And Dental Reimbursement.
Section 256B.761 — Reimbursement For Mental Health Services.
Section 256B.762 — Reimbursement For Health Care Services.
Section 256B.763 — Critical Access Mental Health Rate Increase.
Section 256B.7635 — Reimbursement For Evidence-based Public Health Nurse Home Visits.
Section 256B.764 — Reimbursement For Family Planning Services.
Section 256B.765 — Provider Rate Increases.
Section 256B.766 — Reimbursement For Basic Care Services.
Section 256B.767 — Medicare Payment Limit.
Section 256B.77 — Coordinated Service Delivery System For Persons With Disabilities.
Section 256B.771 — Complementary And Alternative Medicine Demonstration Project.
Section 256B.78 — Demonstration Project For Family Planning Services.
Section 256B.79 — Integrated Care For High-risk Pregnant Women.
Section 256B.795 — Maternal And Infant Health Report.
Section 256B.81 — Mental Health Provider Appeal Process.
Section 256B.82 — Prepaid Plans And Mental Health Rehabilitative Services.
Section 256B.84 — American Indian Contracting Provisions.
Section 256B.85 — Community First Services And Supports.
Section 256B.851 — Community First Services And Supports; Payment Rates.