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Panel advances bill to prevent charges for mobile crisis services, bolster 988-linked response
Summary
House File 9‑73 would bar providers from charging individuals for mobile mental health crisis responses, remove MinnesotaCare co‑payments for crisis services, and seek ongoing funding; the committee laid the bill over after testimony from providers, counties and advocates.
Representative Nolan Backer presented House File 9‑73 to the committee, asking members to make mobile mental health crisis teams universally available without out‑of‑pocket charges and to stabilize funding. The committee moved the bill and laid it over for further work.
The bill would prohibit mobile crisis teams supported by state grants or MinnesotaCare from charging individuals for services and would make crisis services exempt from co‑payments, coinsurance and deductibles under MinnesotaCare. Backer told the panel he envisions ongoing funding and asked for $4 million per year in the draft to sustain teams and to expand protected transport…
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