2011 Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 245 - 267 — Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 256L — Minnesotacare
Section 256L.11 — Provider Payment
Subdivision 1.Medical assistance rate to be used.
(a) Payment to providers under sections 256L.01 to 256L.11 shall be at the same rates and conditions established for medical assistance, except as provided in subdivisions 2 to 6.
(b) Effective for services provided on or after July 1, 2009, total payments for basic care services shall be reduced by three percent, in accordance with section 256B.766. Payments made to managed care and county-based purchasing plans shall be reduced for services provided on or after October 1, 2009, to reflect this reduction.
(c) Effective for services provided on or after July 1, 2009, payment rates for physician and professional services shall be reduced as described under section 256B.76, subdivision 1, paragraph (c). Payments made to managed care and county-based purchasing plans shall be reduced for services provided on or after October 1, 2009, to reflect this reduction.
Subd. 2.Payment of certain providers.
Services provided by federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and facilities of the Indian health service shall be paid for according to the same rates and conditions applicable to the same service provided by providers that are not federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, or facilities of the Indian health service.
Subd. 2a.Payment rates; services for families and children under the MinnesotaCare health care reform waiver.
Subdivision 2 shall not apply to services provided to families with children who are eligible according to section 256L.04, subdivision 1, paragraph (a).
Subd. 3.Inpatient hospital services.
Inpatient hospital services provided under section 256L.03, subdivision 3, shall be paid for as provided in subdivisions 4 to 6.
Subd. 4.Definition of medical assistance rate for inpatient hospital services.
The "medical assistance rate," as used in this section to apply to rates for providing inpatient hospital services, means the rates established under sections 256.9685 to 256.9695 for providing inpatient hospital services to medical assistance recipients who receive Minnesota family investment program assistance.
Subd. 5.Enrollees younger than 18.
Payment for inpatient hospital services provided to MinnesotaCare enrollees who are younger than 18 years old on the date of admission to the inpatient hospital shall be at the medical assistance rate.
Subd. 6.Enrollees 18 or older.
Payment by the MinnesotaCare program for inpatient hospital services provided to MinnesotaCare enrollees eligible under section 256L.04, subdivision 7, or who qualify under section 256L.04, subdivisions 1 and 2, with family gross income that exceeds 175 percent of the federal poverty guidelines and who are not pregnant, who are 18 years old or older on the date of admission to the inpatient hospital must be in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b). Payment for adults who are not pregnant and are eligible under section 256L.04, subdivisions 1 and 2, and whose incomes are equal to or less than 175 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, shall be as provided for under paragraph (c).
(a) If the medical assistance rate minus any co-payment required under section 256L.03, subdivision 4, is less than or equal to the amount remaining in the enrollee's benefit limit under section 256L.03, subdivision 3, payment must be the medical assistance rate minus any co-payment required under section 256L.03, subdivision 4. The hospital must not seek payment from the enrollee in addition to the co-payment. The MinnesotaCare payment plus the co-payment must be treated as payment in full.
(b) If the medical assistance rate minus any co-payment required under section 256L.03, subdivision 4, is greater than the amount remaining in the enrollee's benefit limit under section 256L.03, subdivision 3, payment must be the lesser of:
(1) the amount remaining in the enrollee's benefit limit; or
(2) charges submitted for the inpatient hospital services less any co-payment established under section 256L.03, subdivision 4.
The hospital may seek payment from the enrollee for the amount by which usual and customary charges exceed the payment under this paragraph. If payment is reduced under section 256L.03, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), the hospital may not seek payment from the enrollee for the amount of the reduction.
(c) For admissions occurring on or after July 1, 2011, for single adults and households without children who are eligible under section 256L.04, subdivision 7, the commissioner shall pay hospitals directly, up to the medical assistance payment rate, for inpatient hospital benefits up to the $10,000 annual inpatient benefit limit, minus any co-payment required under section 256L.03, subdivision 5. Inpatient services paid directly by the commissioner under this paragraph do not include chemical dependency hospital-based and residential treatment.
Subd. 7.Critical access dental providers.
Effective for dental services provided to MinnesotaCare enrollees on or after January 1, 2007, through August 31, 2011, the commissioner shall increase payment rates to dentists and dental clinics deemed by the commissioner to be critical access providers under section 256B.76, subdivision 4, by 50 percent above the payment rate that would otherwise be paid to the provider. Effective for dental services provided on or after September 1, 2011, the commissioner shall increase the payment rate by 30 percent above the payment rate that would otherwise be paid to the provider. The commissioner shall pay the prepaid health plans under contract with the commissioner amounts sufficient to reflect this rate increase. The prepaid health plan must pass this rate increase to providers who have been identified by the commissioner as critical access dental providers under section 256B.76, subdivision 4.
History:
1993 c 345 art 9 s 9; 1994 c 625 art 8 s 57; 1995 c 234 art 6 s 21; 1997 c 225 art 1 s 15; 1998 c 407 art 5 s 37,47; 1999 c 159 s 106; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 2 s 66; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 113; 2006 c 282 art 16 s 13; 2007 c 147 art 5 s 31; 2009 c 79 art 5 s 67; 2009 c 173 art 1 s 38; 1Sp2010 c 1 art 16 s 34; 1Sp2011 c 9 art 6 s 79,80
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