Section 1 (256B.093, subdivision 2) expands eligibility for the traumatic brain injury administrative case management and consultation benefit under the medical assistance program to include persons who acquired a brain injury due to exposure to alcohol as a fetus. This benefit is funded using medical assistance administrative funds.
Section 2 (Direction to the commissioner) directs the commissioner to seek a waiver to the brain injury waiver to include persons with a diagnosis of a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Section 3 (Appropriation) appropriates $500,000 per year ongoing to the Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome for pass-through grants to regional collaboratives that provide services to pregnant women and families that reduce incidents of fetal alcohol syndrome disorders and other drug-related effects in infants and children.
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