S.B. 2798 Summary

• Establishes the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Medicaid Waiver Administrative Claiming Special Fund administered by the Department of Health to receive federal Medicaid administrative claiming revenues and state appropriations.

• Fund revenues include federal Medicaid administrative claiming allowances, legislative appropriations, grants, gifts, and income earned by the fund.

• Authorizes fund use for fiscal management services, staff and provider training, quality management activities, information technology system operations, rate methodology studies, and participant level-of-support assessments related to the Hawaii Section 1915(c) home and community-based services waiver.

• Requires the Department of Health to submit annual reports to the legislature no later than 20 days before each regular session accounting for fund receipts and expenditures.

• Adds the new special fund to the list of exemptions from the 5 percent central service assessment in Section 36-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and from pro rata administrative expense requirements in Section 36-30.