Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

145C.02 HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE. A principal with the capacity to do so may execute a health care directive. A health care directive may include one or more health care instructions to direct health care providers, others assisting with health care, family members, and a health car…

145C.03 REQUIREMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Legal sufficiency. To be legally sufficient in this state, a health care directive must: (1) be in writing; (2) be dated; (3) state the principal's name; (4) be executed by a principal with capacity to do so with the signature of the principa…

145C.04 EXECUTED IN ANOTHER STATE. (a) A health care directive or similar document executed in another state or jurisdiction is legally sufficient under this chapter if it: (1) complies with the law of the state or jurisdiction in which it was executed; or (2) complies with secti…

145C.05 SUGGESTED FORM; PROVISIONS THAT MAY BE INCLUDED. § Subdivision 1.Content. A health care directive executed pursuant to this chapter may, but need not, be in the form contained in section 145C.16. § Subd. 2.Provisions that may be included. (a) A health care directive may i…

145C.06 WHEN EFFECTIVE. A health care directive is effective for a health care decision when: (1) it meets the requirements of section 145C.03, subdivision 1; and (2) the principal, in the determination of the attending physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician …

145C.07 AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF HEALTH CARE AGENT. § Subdivision 1.Authority. The health care agent has authority to make any particular health care decision only if the principal lacks decision-making capacity, in the determination of the attending physician, advanced practice r…

145C.08 AUTHORITY TO REVIEW MEDICAL RECORDS. A health care agent acting pursuant to a health care directive has the same right as the principal to receive, review, and obtain copies of medical records of the principal, and to consent to the disclosure of medical records of the pr…

145C.09 REVOCATION OF HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE. § Subdivision 1.Revocation. A principal with the capacity to do so may revoke a health care directive in whole or in part at any time by doing any of the following: (1) canceling, defacing, obliterating, burning, tearing, or otherwise …

145C.10 PRESUMPTIONS. (a) The principal is presumed to have the capacity to execute a health care directive and to revoke a health care directive, absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. (b) A health care provider or health care agent may presume that a health care …

145C.11 IMMUNITIES. § Subdivision 1.Health care agent. A health care agent is not subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability if the health care agent acts in good faith. § Subd. 2.Health care provider. (a) With respect to health care provided to a patient with a health ca…

145C.12 PROHIBITED PRACTICES. § Subdivision 1.Health care provider. A health care provider, health care service plan, insurer, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital plan may not condition admission to a facility, or the providing of treatment or insura…

145C.13 PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Gross misdemeanor offenses. Whoever commits any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor: (1) willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates a health care directive of a principal without the consent of the principal; (2) wil…

145C.14 CERTAIN PRACTICES NOT CONDONED. Nothing in this chapter may be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia. History: 1993 c 312 s 15

145C.15 DUTY TO PROVIDE LIFE-SUSTAINING HEALTH CARE. (a) If a proxy acting under chapter 145B or a health care agent acting under this chapter directs the provision of health care, nutrition, or hydration that, in reasonable medical judgment, has a significant possibility of sust…

145C.16 SUGGESTED FORM. The following is a suggested form of a health care directive and is not a required form. HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE I, ..........................., understand this document allows me to do ONE OR BOTH of the following: PART I: Name another person (called the he…

145C.17 OPIOID INSTRUCTIONS ENTERED INTO HEALTH RECORD. At the request of the patient or health care agent, a health care provider shall enter into the patient's health care record any instructions relating to administering, dispensing, or prescribing an opioid. A health care pro…

145C.18 NONOPIOID DIRECTIVE. § Subdivision 1.Execution. A patient with the capacity to do so may execute a nonopioid directive on the patient's own behalf. A patient's health care agent may execute a nonopioid directive on behalf of the patient. A nonopioid directive must include…

145D.01 REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE ENTITY TRANSACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section and section 145D.02, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Captive professional entity" means a professional corporation, limited liability …

145D.02 DATA REPORTING OF CERTAIN HEALTH CARE TRANSACTIONS. (a) This section applies to all transactions where: (1) the health care entity involved in the transaction has average revenue between $10,000,000 and $80,000,000 per year; or (2) the transaction will result in an entity…

145D.30 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Application. For purposes of sections 145D.30 to 145D.37, the following terms have the meanings given unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. § Subd. 2.Commissioner "Commissioner" means the commissioner of commerce for a nonprofit heal…

145D.31 CERTAIN CONVERSION TRANSACTIONS PROHIBITED. A nonprofit health coverage entity must not enter into a conversion transaction if: (1) doing so would result in less than the full and fair value of all public benefit assets remaining dedicated to the public benefit; or (2) an…

145D.32 REQUIREMENTS FOR NONPROFIT HEALTH COVERAGE ENTITY CONVERSION TRANSACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Notice. (a) Before entering into a conversion transaction, a nonprofit health coverage entity must notify the attorney general according to section 317A.811. In addition to the elem…

145D.34 ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES. § Subdivision 1.Investigation. The attorney general has the powers in section 8.31. Nothing in this subdivision limits the powers, remedies, or responsibilities of the attorney general under this chapter; chapter 8, 309, 317A, or 501B; or any oth…

145D.35 DATA PRACTICES. Data provided by a nonprofit health coverage entity to the commissioner or the attorney general under sections 145D.30 to 145D.32 are, for data on individuals, confidential data on individuals as defined under section 13.02, subdivision 3, and, for data no…

145D.36 COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH; REPORTS AND ANALYSIS. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the commissioner of health may use data or information submitted under sections 60A.135 to 60A.137, 60A.17, 60D.18, 60D.20, 62D.221, and 145D.32 to conduct analyses of the aggregate imp…

145D.37 RELATION TO OTHER LAW. (a) Sections 145D.30 to 145D.36 are in addition to and do not affect or limit any power, remedy, or responsibility of a health maintenance organization, a service plan corporation, the attorney general, the commissioner of health, or the commissione…

145D.40 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Application. For purposes of sections 145D.40 to 145D.41, the following terms have the meanings given. § Subd. 2.Assisted living facility. "Assisted living facility" has the meaning given in section 144G.08, subdivision 7. Assisted living faci…

145D.41 NOTICE OF CERTAIN ACQUISITIONS OF NURSING HOMES AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES. § Subdivision 1.Notice. At least 120 days prior to the transfer of ownership or control of a nonprofit nursing home or nonprofit assisted living facility to a for-profit entity, the nursing ho…

146.01 DEFINITION; PRACTICING HEALING AND PRACTICE OF HEALING. The term "practicing healing" or "practice of healing" shall mean and include any person who shall in any manner for any fee, gift, compensation, or reward, or in expectation thereof, engage in, or hold out to the pub…

146.13 REGISTRATION FEES. Every person not hereinafter excepted from the provisions of this chapter authorized to practice healing in this state shall annually register with the director of the particular board of examiners which examined and registered or licensed the person to …

146.15 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SYSTEMS OF HEALING. The several boards or other officers whose duty it shall be to administer or carry into effect the provisions of this chapter shall, while exercising such authority, in no manner discriminate against any system or branch of healin…

146.18 PRACTICING WITHOUT REGISTERING OR DISPLAYING CERTIFICATE. Any person who shall practice healing or attempt to practice healing in this state without having registered with the examining board in the system or branch of healing pursued, as herein provided, or without displa…

146.19 OTHER OFFENSES; PENALTY. Any person implicated in employing fraud or deception in registering annually under this chapter shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. History: (5705-19) 1927 c 149 s 19; 1955 c 868 s 1; 1971 c 410 s 7; 1974 c 224 s 5

146.23 MANUAL OR MECHANICAL THERAPY. § Subdivision 1.Therapy. "Manual therapy" or "mechanical therapy" as used in this section means manipulation or adjusting joint articulation without anesthesia. § Subd. 2.Training requirement. A person regulated under this chapter who is not o…

146A.01 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Terms. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee. § Subd. 3.Complementary and alternative health care clien…

146A.02 OFFICE OF UNLICENSED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICE. § Subdivision 1.Creation. The Office of Unlicensed Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practice is created in the Department of Health to investigate complaints and take and enforce disciplinar…

146A.025 MALTREATMENT OF MINORS. Nothing in this chapter shall restrict the ability of a local welfare agency, local law enforcement agency, the commissioner of children, youth, and families, or the state to take action regarding the maltreatment of minors under section 609.378 o…

146A.03 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Permission to report. A person who has knowledge of any conduct constituting grounds for disciplinary action relating to complementary and alternative health care practices under this chapter may report the violation to the office. §…

146A.04 IMMUNITY. § Subdivision 1.Reporting. Any person, other than the unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioner who committed the violation, health care facility, business, or organization is immune from civil liability or criminal prosecution for submit…

146A.05 DISCIPLINARY RECORD ON JUDICIAL REVIEW. Upon judicial review of any disciplinary action taken by the commissioner under this chapter, the reviewing court shall seal the portions of the administrative record that contain data on a complementary and alternative health care …

146A.06 PROFESSIONAL COOPERATION; UNLICENSED PRACTITIONER. § Subdivision 1.Cooperation. An unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioner who is the subject of an investigation, or who is questioned in connection with an investigation, by or on behalf of the of…

146A.065 COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES BY LICENSED OR REGISTERED HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS. (a) A health care practitioner licensed or registered by the commissioner or a health-related licensing board, who engages in complementary and alternative health car…

146A.07 PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY. The office shall maintain and keep current a file containing the reports and complaints filed against unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners within the commissioner's jurisdiction. Each complaint filed with the offi…

146A.08 PROHIBITED CONDUCT. § Subdivision 1.Prohibited conduct. (a) The commissioner may impose disciplinary action as described in section 146A.09 against any unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioner. The following conduct is prohibited and is grounds fo…

146A.09 DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Forms of disciplinary action. When the commissioner finds that an unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioner has violated any provision of this chapter, the commissioner may take one or more of the following act…

146A.10 ADDITIONAL REMEDIES. § Subdivision 1.Cease and desist. (a) The commissioner may issue a cease and desist order to stop a person from violating or threatening to violate a statute, rule, or order which the office has issued or is empowered to enforce. The cease and desist …