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This bill amends Minnesota's medical assistance (Medicaid) regulations to explicitly include extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) cannulation as a covered outpatient service. ECMO is a life-support treatment that uses a machine to do the work of the heart and lungs for a patient, by circulating blood through an artificial lung and back into the body. The bill specifically allows ECMO cannulation (the process of inserting tubes to connect a patient to the ECMO machine) to be covered when performed in a hospital setting or in a self-contained mobile ECMO unit. The bill also maintains existing language about outpatient services, including requirements that physician-directed clinic services be provided under direct physician supervision and defining emergency services. By adding this explicit coverage, the bill ensures that patients receiving this critical medical intervention can have the procedure covered under medical assistance, potentially improving access to this advanced life-support technique.

Health and Social Services

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0083&ssn=0&y=2025