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Beltrami health and human services leaders ask legislature to remove county cost shares and fund local needs
Summary
County HHS officials asked lawmakers to exempt counties from 'does not meet criteria' daily charges at state hospitals, remove the county share of the behavioral health fund and restore $150,000 annually in opioid-response allocation that Beltrami lost under 2024 formula changes.
Antilyn Seth, Beltrami County’s health and human services director, told commissioners the county faces growing fiscal pressure from state policies and program changes that shift costs and work to counties.
Seth described the county cost-share structure for state direct care and treatment hospitals (county share varies by hospital and program, she said, and ranges from 10% up to 100% of daily rates). She said two current cases in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program are being charged at the full daily rate after being deemed 'does…
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