Human Services

GAMC

Statewide Outcome(s):

GAMC supports the following statewide outcome(s).

Minnesotans are healthy.

Context:

GAMC (General Assistance Medical Care) ended on June 1, 2010. GAMC was a state entitlement program that paid for health care services for very low income single adults ineligible for Medical Assistance or other state or federal health care programs. Health care coverage provided through GAMC was 100 percent paid for with state General Fund dollars.

Strategies:

To bring an orderly close to the GAMC program, department staff must properly manage the tails of remaining GAMC financial obligations. In the FY 2012-13 biennium, this work included: making the last managed care withhold payments; making negative accounting adjustments when disability determinations made GAMC recipients retroactively eligible for Medical Assistance; and managing a settle up payment process for hospitals that provided care to GAMC recipients before June 1, 2010.

Moving forward, department staff will continue to appropriately manage any remaining hospital settlement payments relating to the old GAMC program. (Laws 2011, First Special Session Chapter 9, Article 10, Section 2, Subd. 2, rider “Payments for Cost Settlements”)

Results:

N/A

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