State pushes forward with Medicaid waiver
During the 2011 legislative session, GOP legislative leaders repeatedly called for the state to seek a waiver on Medicaid rules from the federal government. Both the Senate and House initially booked...
View ArticleWelfare bills get big GOP push
One month into a session that is not exactly threatening any legislative land-speed records on most policy fronts, Republican legislators have already introduced at least a dozen bills containing...
View ArticleSenate sinks HMO audit bill
Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chairman David Hann promised to hold a hearing on a bill requiring independent annual audits of the health plans that administer the state’s Medicaid program....
View ArticleMagnuson: Act now on MSOP, or courts will
Since October, former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson has chaired a task force charged with making recommendations to overhaul the state’s policies for dangerous sex offenders.
View ArticleDHS two months late in naming new Medicaid actuary
In March, Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson announced that the state was firing the actuarial firm Milliman, which had long been responsible for setting the rates for...
View ArticleState’s ‘Olmstead Plan’ looks to overhaul disability services
It’s been 14 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in the matter of Olmstead v. L.C. In that case, the high court found that states cannot continue to house disabled citizens in...
View ArticleAlleged child care fraud biggest in state history
A husband and wife from Fridley allegedly bilked the state of more than $4 million as part of a complex scheme in which they recruited aid-eligible parents to enroll their children in day care, created...
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