Department of Human Services

Aug 26, 2015

Task force begins review of child protection

Members of a joint working group laid out a course of action, both legislative and by the DHS, that is set to stretch several years into the future, with more immediate benchmarks leading up to significant legislative action starting in 2016.

Jul 15, 2015

Backlog spurs renewed calls to jettison MNsure

Republicans renewed their call for the state to begin transitioning to the federal healthcare.gov system.

Jun 26, 2015

Health care ruling sets off partisan responses

Minnesota wasn’t subject, individually, to the court’s decision, but Gov. Mark Dayton warned that a ruling that eliminated subsidies for other states would have “thrown the whole system into chaos.”

Jun 19, 2015

Little appetite for MSOP change

Despite a federal court ruling, elected officials are reluctant to give sex offenders more freedom.

May 15, 2015

Ortman: ‘I’ve always thought this is not a career’

Retiring suburban senator says it’s time for ‘new energy from new folks.'

Apr 17, 2015

Public health programs flashpoints in brewing debate

The MinnesotaCare provision is the bill’s most significant change to existing law, and perhaps its least likely to gain agreement from Senate Democrats and Gov. Mark Dayton.

Jun 13, 2014

MNsure study heralded by Democrats

The dramatic cut in the number of uninsured people in the state brought cheers from Democrats, but the federal health care law will remain a focus of GOP campaigns.

Apr 16, 2014

Some MinnesotaCare clients paying too much

DHS computer troubles delay cost-lowering transfer under new law.

Apr 2, 2014

Emergency MA program gets $2M in Senate bill

The goal is to create a “wraparound” for the Emergency Medical Assistance program that would essentially give state-funded Medicaid benefits to affected immigrants.

Mar 21, 2014

Mark Siegel: Refusing to be stopped

DHS’s Siegel overcomes disease to make outsized contributions to health care policy.

Aug 28, 2013

Department of Human Services – Reduction of Services

A12-1742 C.L. v. Dep’t of Human Servs. (Hennepin County)

Sep 28, 2012

DHS defends Medicaid reimbursement practices in response to Congress

Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson offered a robust defense of the state's administration of its Medicaid program in a response Thursday to pointed inquiries from Congress. Jesson took umbrage at an assertion that the state has "claimed upwards of $500 million in improper federal Medicaid reimbursement over the past decade."