Audio/Video Archives - 2007-2008 Regular Session

HF464 (Sertich) School employee statewide health insurance plan established.
HF1206 (Kelliher) Universal Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening Act adopted.
HF599 (Brod) Grieving Parents Act established, and mothers required to be notified of burial and cremation options in the case of a miscarriage.
HF1405 (Thissen) Incidental nursing services coverage authorized under the elderly waiver, rate exceptions provided and elderly waiver reimbursement rate limits increased.
HF1072 (Liebling) Mortuary science provisions modified.

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HF721 (Fritz) Long-term care provider rates increased, new nursing facility case mix indices use required, MinnesotaCare employer-subsidized coverage exemption provided, and initiatives and study required.
HF196 (Greiling) division report.
HF1405 (Thissen) Incidental nursing services coverage authorized under the elderly waiver, rate exceptions provided, and elderly waiver reimbursement rate limits increased.
HF313 (Fritz) Home care tax credit established.
HF309 (Gottwalt) Long-term care insurance income tax credit adjusted
HF712 (Fritz) Safe Patient Handling Act adopted, programs and committees established, grant funding provided and funds transferred to the assigned risk safety account.
HF908 (Liebling) expanding a quality assurance system to include additional service recipients.
HF1073 (Hamilton) Prescription drug removal from the formulary notice required.
HF1194 has been removed from the agenda

HF320 (Anzelc) establishing a method to determine reimbursement of nursing facility Public Employees Retirement Association costs
HF400 (Hosch) allowing contracts with nursing facilities for the provision of additional specialized services; modifying reimbursement for short-stay residents; increasing nursing facility operating payment rates; implementing new case mix indices and providing interim rate adjustments; rebasing nursing facility rates; providing additional nursing facility quality add-ons
HF401 (Thissen) providing additional criteria for ranking nursing facility moratorium exception proposals; increasing the limit on allowable interest on equipment; increasing the replacement-cost-new per bed limit; providing reimbursement for certain nursing facility property costs; authorizing funding of moratorium exception projects
HF721 (Fritz) providing long-term care provider rate increases; requiring the use of new nursing facility case mix indices; providing an exemption from the MinnesotaCare program prohibition on employer-subsidized coverage; requiring workforce initiatives; requiring a study of nursing facility rate rebasing
HFXXX (Thissen) has been removed from the agenda

HF633 (Sertich) regulating health plan coverage for hearing aids
HF320 (Anzelc) establishing a method to determine reimbursement of nursing facility Public Employees Retirement Association costs
HF595 (Laine) establishing a newborn home visiting program and a home visiting program
HF625 has been removed from the agenda
HF599 has been removed from the agenda

HF250 (Peterson, A) modifying provisions for ambulance service and interhospital transfer
HF634 (Norton) A resolution urging support for and reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
HF625 (Nornes) eliminating the MinnesotaCare four-month uninsured requirement for children
HF475 (Loeffler) expanding private health insurance coverage of young adult dependents by including those not enrolled as full-time students
Other bills may be added
HF736 has been removed from the agenda
HF599 has been removed from the agenda

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