Minnesota's 245G governs SUD treatment licensing — assessment, treatment planning, staff qualifications, and documentation. Here is what licensors actually look for in daily documentation, and how the 2026 ASAM realignment changed the picture.
Licensing is won or lost in the daily record. Minnesota's 245G sets the standard for SUD treatment programs, and licensors review the documentation your team produces every day against it. With the 2026 ASAM realignment reshaping service definitions, keeping 245G compliance in the daily workflow matters more than ever. Here is what licensors look for. For the market context, see the Minnesota 245G and DAANES guide.
Minn. Stat. chapter 245G is the licensing chapter for SUD treatment programs. It governs assessment, treatment planning, staff qualifications, documentation, and service delivery. Withdrawal management programs are licensed separately under chapter 245F. Read together, these chapters define what a compliant program looks like — and the daily documentation is the evidence that you are one. See Minn. Stat. 245G.
The recurring themes in a 245G review are completeness, timeliness, and coherence. Licensors look for a complete comprehensive assessment done on time, a treatment plan and treatment coordination that follow logically from that assessment, appropriately qualified staff delivering and documenting the services, and a record that demonstrates the required service structure. The through-line is that each piece should connect to the next — assessment to plan to service to note — rather than existing as disconnected artifacts.
The 2025 legislation amended 245G.07 to restructure SUD services around ASAM criteria, replacing the old treatment-service structure with ASAM-aligned service types. For daily documentation, that means your notes and service records now have to reflect the new service definitions. Programs that updated their documentation templates to the current 245G structure keep compliance in the workflow; programs still documenting against the old structure create a growing gap between what they record and what the license requires.
Navix is the operating record designed to structure documentation to support 245G's assessment, treatment-planning, and service requirements, and the 2026 ASAM-aligned service types — so the daily record a licensor reviews is complete and coherent by construction. Keeping the assessment, plan, and services connected on one record is exactly what a 245G review rewards. Confirm current 245G requirements against DHS and revisor materials.
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