Prenatal and newborn benefit program to provide financial support to families with newborns established, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
Coverage of medical services and prescription medications for the treatment of dementia required, and step therapy requirements for medical assistance modified.
Medical assistance program integrity requirements modified; commissioner directed to create a medical assistance program integrity advisory board; provider enrollment standards, modernization, and program integrity interventions recommendations required; and money appropriated.
Mental illness definition modified, changes to medical assistance transportation reimbursement rates made, grant program for children at risk of bipolar disorder established, report required, children's first episode of psychosis program funding provided, and money appropriated.