For Minnesota 245D providers
Your 245D packet,
pre‑filled from the documents you have.
nnipa reads county assessments, support plans and medication charts, including scans, handwriting and phone photos. It pre-fills admission and review forms, links each fact to its source page and marks what needs a person.
Pre-filled, not finished. Early access, Minnesota first. Built on real packets with one provider in Moorhead.
01 · How it fills the packet
Every fact has a page behind it. Every gap says so.
Choose a field to see where it came from. When the documents don't say, nnipa leaves the field empty and tells you, instead of guessing.
Source
MnCHOICES assessment
Page 1 · identifying information
Source
Illustrative support plan
Page 1 · waiver
Waiver: CADI
Source
Support plan (scan)
Page 3 · contacts
Source
Medication chart (phone photo)
Pages 1–3 · handwritten rows
No source
Service start date is not in the example documents.
Your coordinator must confirm it before the review calendar can be set. nnipa leaves the field blank rather than guess.
- Every field
- shows the document and page it came from
- Absent means blank
- no plausible guess to catch at review time
- DOCX and PDF
- on the forms you already use
Most compliance software is a place to type. nnipa reads.
Keep your system of record. nnipa reads the documents before the facts go into it. Your team checks the facts and answers what the documents cannot.
02 · What it reads
A scan. A phone photo. The county's PDF.
Upload what you were sent, in the shape it arrived. nnipa does not ask you to retype it into a template first.
- MnCHOICES assessment PDF from the county
- CADI or DD support plan scanned, often crooked
- Medication chart handwritten, photographed on a phone
- Functional assessment, contacts, prior packets whatever the file already holds
03 · The review clock
The first packet is not the last one.
nnipa keeps the source documents and previous packets together, so the next review starts with the facts already in the record. Your coordinator confirms which reviews apply and when they are due.
The current calendar is for continuous services. It does not count days of service for intermittent services.
Illustrative review stages. Your provider confirms the dates and cadence.
- AdmissionSource documents and the first pre-filled packet stay together.Packet prepared
- 45-dayStarts with the admission facts already in place.Needs information
- Semi-annualStarts with the previous packet; changes are flagged.Scheduled
- AnnualStarts with the previous packet for the confirmed annual review.Scheduled
04 · Alongside what you use
Keep the system you have. Stop retyping into it.
You keep
- Your system of record and your billing
- Your own form set, layout included
- The judgement and the signature
nnipa takes
- Reading the county's documents
- Filling the same facts into every form
- Keeping your confirmed review dates visible
05 · Said plainly
What nnipa does not claim.
You will be sold to by people who overpromise. Here is where nnipa stops.
- It is early. One Minnesota provider, on real packets. No testimonials, no logos, no customer counts we cannot show.
- Review packets arrive pre-filled, not finished. Some repeating sections still need a person, and nnipa marks which ones before you find out. Your coordinator confirms the review dates and cadence.
- We don't say "HIPAA-compliant." There has been no third-party assessment, and the vendor agreements for handling protected health information are not yet in place. Until they are, walkthroughs use synthetic documents only.
- What is true today: a dedicated encryption key, versioned storage, public access blocked, encrypted transport only. That is a description, not a certificate.
- It does not replace your licence, your staff or your judgement. It replaces the retyping.
The library
Notes for the next review.
Practical guides to the moratorium, review dates, licensing reviews and the record itself. Key requirements link to primary sources. Every guide shows when its evidence was checked.
All resources
News & changes · 6 min
Can you start a 245D provider in Minnesota during the 2026–2027 moratorium?
What Minnesota's current 245D licensing pause means, who can request an exception, and what an aspiring provider can productively do now.
Templates & tools · 6 min
The 245D 15-day, 45-day, and 60-day service-initiation timeline
A compact, sourced timeline for Minnesota intensive-support planning after service initiation—with the service-day/calendar-day distinction intact.
Templates & tools · 8 min
How to prepare for a Minnesota 245D licensing review
A review-preparation system that tests records, staff knowledge, site evidence, and corrective follow-through before the licensor asks.
Research & evidence · 9 min
Is adult foster care profitable in Minnesota? The honest way to answer
A decision model for prospective Minnesota adult foster care and family residential operators—without invented income promises.
Questions providers ask first.
Is nnipa for children's foster care?
No. nnipa is for Minnesota 245D providers: home and community-based services, adult foster care and community residential settings funded through the disability waivers. Children's foster care is a different system with different forms.
Do I have to change my forms?
No. Minnesota sets what a packet must document, not which form it goes on, so providers use different form sets. nnipa fills the forms you already use.
Does it replace Therap or my current system?
No. Keep your system of record. nnipa does the reading and the filling that happens before anything is entered there.
Can I upload a real person's documents today?
Not yet. Until the vendor agreements for protected health information are in place, walkthroughs use synthetic documents. We will say so plainly when that changes.
What does it cost?
Pricing is not public yet. It will be set against what a day of packet work costs a small agency, not against enterprise software. Waitlist members hear first.
Is it only for Minnesota?
For now. The forms and the review sequence are built on Minnesota chapter 245D. Other states come after Minnesota works well.
Early access · Minnesota first
Join the nnipa waitlist.
We will invite Minnesota 245D providers one at a time, checking each packet against the provider's own forms. Join the list and we will write when there is room.
- One email when a place opens. No newsletter unless you ask.
- A walkthrough on synthetic documents, never on a real person's file.
- No commitment and no card.
