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AZ SB1392

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/29/2020

Primary Sponsor

Heather Carter

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2020)

AI Summary

  • Expands AHCCCS eligibility to include women who are less than one year postpartum with family income not exceeding 150% of federal poverty guidelines.

  • Modifies the definition of "eligible person" in Arizona Revised Statutes section 36-2901 to explicitly include postpartum women in the health care cost containment system.

  • Appropriates $13,000,000 from the state general fund and $900,000 from medicaid expenditure authority in fiscal year 2020-2021 to cover eligible postpartum women.

  • Makes technical corrections to statutory language regarding physician and primary care practitioner definitions.

Legislative Description

AHCCCS; pregnant women; postpartum; appropriations

Ahcccs

Last Action

Senate read second time

1/30/2020

Full Bill Text

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