2025–2026 Minnesota Legal Updates for 245D & 245G

2025–2026 Minnesota Legal Update Course Series

Stay current with the major 2025–2026 statutory, regulatory, licensing, billing, workforce, and program-integrity changes affecting Minnesota 245D and 245G providers.

Each course is tailored to the responsibilities of a specific audience and includes practical explanations, compliance examples, and a randomized final assessment.

LU-01: 2025–2026 Legal Update for Direct Support Professionals

Designed for: Direct support professionals and other 245D direct-care staff

• Estimated completion time: 1 hour
• Training credit: 1.0 CEU
• Course content: 25 instructional sections
• Final assessment: 10 randomized questions drawn from a 28-question bank
• Passing score: 80%

Topics Covered

• Electronic Visit Verification services, thresholds, live-in caregiver rules, and credential requirements
• Required drug and alcohol policy training before direct contact with persons served
• The 90-day grace period for completing annual training
• Restrictions on conditioning services based on guardianship status
• Environmental rights that may never be restricted
• New rights protections for minor children effective August 1, 2026
• Expanded Vulnerable Adults Act definitions of abuse and financial exploitation
• Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center modernization
• The new provider kickback crime under Minnesota Statutes, section 609.542
• Out-of-home respite services for children
• Updated positive-support requirements and compliance pathways

LU-02: 2025–2026 Legal Update for Designated Managers and Coordinators

Designed for: Designated managers, designated coordinators, license holders, owners, and 245D compliance leaders

• Estimated completion time: 1.5 hours
• Training credit: 1.5 CEUs
• Course content: 25 instructional sections
• Final assessment: 10 randomized questions drawn from a 28-question bank
• Passing score: 80%

Topics Covered

This course covers all LU-01 topics from a management, oversight, and licensing perspective, along with additional requirements affecting agency operations.

• 245D and Integrated Community Supports licensing moratoria
• $4,200 initial-license and change-of-ownership application fees
• Early and Often technical-assistance reviews
• Temporary immediate suspensions involving suspected fraud
• High-risk provider screening, surety bonds, and continuity-of-care requirements
• 2025–2026 background-study changes, including disqualifiers, NETStudy 2.0, and fee updates
• Notice requirements under Minnesota Statutes, section 245D.10
• The 60-day nonpayment termination rule
• Integrated Community Supports commissioner-notice requirements
• Housing-account requirements under Minnesota Statutes, section 245D.097
• Vulnerable Adults Act and maltreatment-policy updates
• Disability Waiver Rate System caps and cost-report enforcement
• Current Waiver Reimagine implementation status

LU-03: 2025–2026 Legal Update for SUD Program Managers and Staff

Designed for: 245G program managers, counselors, treatment coordinators, recovery peers, supervisors, and compliance staff

• Estimated completion time: 1.5 hours
• Training credit: 1.5 CEUs
• Course content: 25 instructional sections
• Final assessment: 10 randomized questions drawn from a 28-question bank
• Passing score: 80%

August 2025 Changes

• Expanded eligibility for individuals completing substance-use assessments
• New 12-hour substance-use-disorder training requirements
• Fourteen-day opioid treatment program treatment-plan requirements
• Guest-speaker documentation standards
• Schedule II through V medication-count requirements
• Orientation timing requirements
• Program coordinator, permit-holder, adolescent-program, and naloxone staffing rules
• Patient-rights requirements under Minnesota Statutes, section 144.651

July 2026 Service Restructure

• Distinctions between counseling and psychoeducation
• Treatment coordination
• Recovery-support services
• Peer-recovery services
• Exclusion of certain supportive services
• Group-cohesion requirements
• Fifteen-minute billing units
• Psychosocial-service hours based on ASAM level of care

Additional Topics

• 2026 workforce and staffing changes
• Peer-recovery integrity requirements under Minnesota Statutes, section 254B.052
• Business-day discharge requirements
• Tobacco-cessation materials required beginning January 1, 2027
• Recovery community organization training requirements
• Telehealth provisions scheduled to sunset July 1, 2027
• Uniform Service Standards implementation anticipated in 2028
• ASAM Fourth Edition implementation outlook

Assessment and Certificate Requirements

Each course includes a randomized final assessment consisting of 10 questions selected from a 28-question question bank. Participants must earn a score of at least 80% to successfully complete the course and receive a certificate.

Participants should complete the course version applicable to their job duties, supervisory responsibilities, and licensed service setting.