A lump-sum payment scheduled at the end of a series of smaller periodic payments that is selected as part of a payment agreement.
Basic Medical Assistance (MA)
MA coverage for services not related to skilled nursing facility care, nursing facility care in an inpatient medical hospital or intermediate care facility (ICF, ICF/DD), or services covered by home and community-based waiver programs.
Basis of Eligibility
An identifying characteristic of a category of people specified as potentially eligible for Medical Assistance (MA). People without one of the specified characteristics are ineligible for MA but may be eligible for MinnesotaCare.
Battered Noncitizen
A noncitizen who is the spouse or child of a U.S. citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) and who has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the U.S. by a family member residing in the same household.
Battered Women's Shelter
A public or private nonprofit crisis shelter, housing network or other shelter facility providing services to battered women and their children.
BEER
Beneficiary Earnings and Exchange Record. A monthly IEVS tape exchange between the Social Security Administration and DHS reporting wages, self-employment, and federal pension earnings from federal tax returns. The original source is the Internal Revenue Service.
Benchmark Plan
A prescription drug coverage plan that has been designated by Medicare to meet certain coverage requirements and which has a monthly premium that is fully subsidized by Extra Help.
Beneficiary
The person named to receive benefits or payments (for example, social security payments or payments from a life insurance policy or trust). For annuities, a beneficiary is the individual, trust, or entity named by the annuity owner to receive death benefits from an annuity.
Beneficiary Data Exchange (BNDX)
A monthly IEVS tape exchange between the Social Security Administration and DHS. The report provides information on RSDI and Medicare.
Beneficiary Earnings and Exchange Record (BEER)
A monthly IEVS tape exchange between the Social Security Administration and DHS reporting wages, self-employment, and federal pension earnings from federal tax returns. The original source is the Internal Revenue Service.
Benefit Recovery Section (BRS)
A section of DHS which pursues collection of third party payments and determines if health insurance is cost-effective.
BFE
Burial Fund Exclusion. Allows clients to set aside, or designate, up to $1500 in assets to cover certain burial expenses. Assets designated toward the BFE are not counted in the client's net asset total.
BI
Brain Injury. An MA waiver program for people diagnosed with a brain injury.
Blind
A basis of eligibility for a person without vision, or who meets specific limited-vision conditions.
BNDX
Beneficiary Data Exchange. A monthly IEVS tape exchange between the Social Security Administration and DHS. The report provides information on RSDI and Medicare.
Board and Lodging Facility
A facility that serves as an alternative to institutionalization and provides a program of on-site care or supervision to persons who cannot live independently because of age or physical, mental or emotional disability.
Brain Injury (BI)
An MA waiver program for people diagnosed with a brain injury.
Break in Long-Term Care (LTC) Services
A gap of one calendar month or more in receiving MA payment of LTC services because the individual either: 1. Became ineligible for MA payment of LTC services; or 2. Stopped residing in a LTC facility or receiving services through a home and community-based waiver program.
BRS
Benefit Recovery Section. A section of DHS which pursues collection of third party payments and determines if health insurance is cost-effective.
BS
Burial Space. Any repository for the remains of the deceased such as cemetery plots, urns, niches, crypts, and caskets.
BSI
Burial Space Items. Items which add to or improve burial spaces such as markers, engraving, vaults, opening and closing of the grave, and one time charges for preservation/care of the space (perpetual care).
Budget Period
See Certification Period.
Burial Agreement
An arrangement in which funds are deposited with a funeral director to be used for funeral expenses. The agreement may cover funeral and professional services, burial space items, or both. The money is usually held in trust by a bank or other financial institution unless the agreement is funded by an insurance policy or annuity. Burial agreements may be revocable or irrevocable.
Burial Fund Exclusion (BFE)
The Burial Fund Exclusion (BFE) allows clients to set aside, or designate, up to $1500 in assets to cover certain burial expenses. Assets designated toward the BFE are not counted in the client's net asset total.
Burial Funds
Funds paid or designated in advance for funeral expenses, including but not limited to burial agreements. Burial funds provide for preparation of the body, cremation, or burial services.
Burial Services
These are services which are pre-paid in a burial agreement.
Burial Space (BS)
Any repository for the remains of the deceased such as cemetery plots, urns, niches, crypts, and caskets.
Burial Space Item (BSI)
Items which add to or improve burial spaces such as markers, engraving, vaults, opening and closing of the grave, and one-time charges for preservation/care of the space (perpetual care).
Business Day
Any weekday (Monday through Friday) that does not fall on a state holiday.
Buy-In
The process of having some or all of the client’s Medicare costs paid through MA.