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ID H0708
Bill
AI Summary
House Bill 708 Summary
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Removes the 55% supplemental component for personal assistance services providers and limits rate adjustments for state fiscal year 2011 to instances where prevailing hourly rates fall below fiscal year 2010 rates.
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Revises skilled care facility reimbursement by changing the quarterly rate decrease period from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010 to July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, and eliminates incentive payment provisions.
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Freezes intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded at fiscal year 2009 rates through June 30, 2010, then implements prospective reimbursement effective July 1, 2010 using 2008 audited cost reports without inflation adjustments.
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Extends the physician and dentist reimbursement rate freeze through June 30, 2011 before allowing future adjustments based on annual inflation forecasts.
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Replaces the policy restricting pharmacy reimbursement reductions with a requirement for periodic state cost surveys to establish pharmacy reimbursement fee schedules, with emergency retroactive application to April 1, 2010.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law relating to public assistance to remove a supplemental component and to provide for an adjustment to payments under certain conditions; to revise dates for decreasing each skilled care facility's quarterly rate and to remove provisions regarding incentive payments; to revise the reimbursement rate for intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded and to remove a prospective rate component; to revise a date through which a certain reimbursement rate shall remain constant; to remove a policy statement with regard to reduction of pharmacy reimbursement levels for Medicaid and to provide for a periodic cost survey to establish a pharmacy reimbursement fee schedule.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
Last Action
Governor signed Session Law Chapter 296 Effective: 04/01/10 Section 5; 07/01/10 All other sections
4/11/2010