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Housing Stabilization Services is a new Minnesota Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorder, and seniors find and keep housing.

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People who do not have waiver or targeted case management or a MSHO/MSC+ care coordinator, but need Housing Stabilization Services, can complete the person-centered planning needed through an enrolled housing consultant. Enrolled housing consultants help a person develop a Housing Focused Person-Centered Plan and support the person to select their housing transition or sustaining provider. This service must be distinct from all other services and not duplicate other services or assistance available to the person.

Covered Services:

  • Assisting the person to access documentation required for Housing Stabilization Services eligibility

  • Developing a Housing Focused Person-Centered Plan based on assessment outcomes

  • Supporting the person in identifying their strengths, needs and wants in housing including cultural requirements and/or preferences

  • Supporting the person to make an informed choice in their housing transition or sustaining provider

  • Offering resource information for services that support non-housing related goals as identified in the person-centered planning process

  • Coordinating with other service providers currently working with the person

  • Helping the person understand their rights to privacy and appeal information

  • Annually updating the person-centered plan as it relates to housing

Not Covered Services:

  • Housing-Focused Person-Centered Plans if the person has a Medicaid-funded case manager or MSHO/MSC+ care coordinator or is found ineligible for Housing Stabilization Services by DHS during the eligibility review process

  • No-show appointments

  • Documentation and verification gathering after the Housing Focused Person-Centered Plan’s completion

  • Assessments

Housing Consultation Service Limitations:

  • All consultation services must be provided through a Medical Assistance enrolled provider, even if the provider does not intend on billing Medical Assistance for the service.

  • Housing consultation is not available to people who receive Medical Assistance-funded case management including home and community-based waiver case management, targeted case management including: Adult Mental Health, Children’s Mental Health, Vulnerable Adult/Developmental Disability, Child Welfare and Relocation Service Coordination or MSHO/MSC+ care coordination.

  • If a person on MSHO or MSC+, and not on an elderly waiver, refuses care coordination , that person can receive Housing Consultation (which would then not be duplicative services). The provider must receive confirmation of care coordination refusal from the MCO and upload that information when completing the Housing Stabilization service eligibility application. A person on a disability or elderly waiver cannot refuse waiver case management therefore the waiver case manager/care coordinator must always complete the plan.

  • A person cannot receive housing consultation services and receive housing transition or sustaining services from the same provider without an approved exception from DHS. Refer to the Conflict of Interest Requirements and Exception section below for more information about this requirement.

  • A person must be living in, or planning to transition to, housing that meets home and community-based services (HCBS) settings requirements and is not a community residential setting or foster care (licensed under 245D). These services may be provided in any setting in the community if the person is moving into a setting that meets home and community-based setting requirements (excluding community residential settings or foster care settings) when the person moves in.

  • For a person residing in an institutional setting, services may be furnished no more than 180 consecutive days prior to discharge and Housing Stabilization providers may not bill for services until the person has transitioned to a home that meets the home and community-based setting requirements (excluding community residential setting or foster care licensed under 245D). “Institution” is defined under Minn. Stat. 256B.0621, Subd. 2(3).

  • Consultation services cannot exceed one session per year except under these circumstances:

    • A person requests an update to their Housing Focused Person-Centered Plan

    • A person requires a new plan due to unexpected housing changes (i.e. becomes homeless and wants to seek housing again within the annual plan year.)

    • A person wants to change their housing transition/sustaining provider.

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