MN Policy

H.F.2/S.F.6 (2025): Requires the commissioner of human services to align Medicaid payments with state policy goals, specifically targeting the improvement of one of the following quality measures: well child visits; maternal depression screening; or colon cancer screening. Requires the commissioner, in consultation with the Minnesota Hospital Association, to develop quality measures performance evaluation criteria and a methodology to regularly measure access to care and the achievement of state policy goals, and to submit this data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after at least 12 months of payments to hospitals.

Governor’s Proclamation (2024):  proclaim May 2024 as Maternal Mental Health Month and raise awareness about the importance of maternal mental health.

HF 4251 (2006): Requires the commissioner of health to develop materials and information about postpartum depression, including treatment resources.   Requires Physicians, traditional midwives, and other license health care professionals providing prenatal care to women must   have available to women and their families information about postpartum depression. Hospitals and WIC Facilities must provide departing new mothers and fathers and other family members, written information about postpartum depression.