Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2012/cite/62J.692
Timestamp: 2020-05-27 16:37:09
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 2', 'art 2', 'art 15', 'art 3', 'art 1', 'art 7', 'art 12', 'art 9', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 2', 'art 15', 'art 5', 'art 21', 'art 2', 'art 6']

(a) The commissioner shall annually distribute the available medical education funds to all qualifying applicants based on a distribution formula that reflects a summation of two factors:
Public program revenue for the distribution formula includes revenue from medical assistance, prepaid medical assistance, general assistance medical care, and prepaid general assistance medical care. Training sites that receive no public program revenue are ineligible for funds available under this subdivision. For purposes of determining training-site level grants to be distributed under paragraph (a), total statewide average costs per trainee for medical residents is based on audited clinical training costs per trainee in primary care clinical medical education programs for medical residents. Total statewide average costs per trainee for dental residents is based on audited clinical training costs per trainee in clinical medical education programs for dental students. Total statewide average costs per trainee for pharmacy residents is based on audited clinical training costs per trainee in clinical medical education programs for pharmacy students. Training sites whose training site level grant is less than $1,000, based on the formula described in this paragraph, are ineligible for funds available under this subdivision.
(b) Funds distributed shall not be used to displace current funding appropriations from federal or state sources.
(c) Funds shall be distributed to the sponsoring institutions indicating the amount to be distributed to each of the sponsor's clinical medical education programs based on the criteria in this subdivision and in accordance with the commissioner's approval letter. Each clinical medical education program must distribute funds allocated under paragraph (a) to the training sites as specified in the commissioner's approval letter. Sponsoring institutions, which are accredited through an organization recognized by the Department of Education or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may contract directly with training sites to provide clinical training. To ensure the quality of clinical training, those accredited sponsoring institutions must:
(d) Any funds not distributed in accordance with the commissioner's approval letter must be returned to the medical education and research fund within 30 days of receiving notice from the commissioner. The commissioner shall distribute returned funds to the appropriate training sites in accordance with the commissioner's approval letter.
(e) A maximum of $150,000 of the funds dedicated to the commissioner under section 297F.10, subdivision 1, clause (2), may be used by the commissioner for administrative expenses associated with implementing this section.
The commissioner and the Medical Education and Research Costs Advisory Committee may review provider groups included in the definition of a clinical medical education program to assure that the distribution of the funds continue to be consistent with the purpose of this section. The results of any such reviews must be reported to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over health care policy and finance.
1999 c 245 art 2 s 10; 2000 c 494 s 1-3; 2001 c 161 s 14; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 2 s 2,3; 2002 c 220 art 15 s 1,2; 2002 c 277 s 32; 2002 c 375 art 3 s 1; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 113; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 7 s 16-19; art 12 s 1; 1Sp2003 c 21 art 9 s 1,2; 2004 c 228 art 1 s 16; 2005 c 10 art 1 s 81; 2005 c 84 s 1-3; 1Sp2005 c 4 art 2 s 1; 2007 c 147 art 15 s 5-8; 2009 c 79 art 5 s 4; 1Sp2010 c 1 art 21 s 1; 1Sp2011 c 9 art 2 s 3; art 6 s 13