| Description:
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Recommendations to reduce cost growth in long-term services and supports, to build greater efficiencies into the long-term care services system, and to promote better outcomes for Minnesotans with long-term care needs, including:
1) approaches to reducing human services expenditures, including identifying strategies for addressing the significant cost drivers of state spending on long-term services and supports;
(2) cost-saving reforms, including reforms to:
(i) licensing requirements, service standards, provider qualifications, and provider duties and responsibilities;
(ii) eligibility requirements for accessing long-term care;
(iii) covered services, service authorizations, service limits, and budget limits;
(iv) rate methodologies, rate enhancements and add-ons, rate exceptions, and rate limits; or
(v) any other cost-saving reforms to medical assistance long-term services and supports and other programs serving Minnesotans with long-term care needs
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| Committee/Agency Jurisdiction:
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Governor
Legislature
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| Note:
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A progress report from the Minn. Dept. of Human Services is due by March 15, 2026, and recommendations from the Long-Term Services and Supports Advisory Council are due by December 1, 2026.
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