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ID H0128
Bill
AI Summary
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Establishes county responsibility for medically indigent emergency medical services up to $11,000 per recipient in a consecutive 12-month period, with the state catastrophic health care cost program paying amounts exceeding this threshold.
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Revises definitions and terminology throughout the catastrophic health care cost program, including clarifying "emergency medical service" means services provided until stabilization and excluding organ transplants, elective procedures, and normal uncomplicated pregnancies.
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Repeals section 31-3503F relating to medical homes and removes provisions requiring separate applications for follow-up necessary medical services and additional treatment requests.
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Clarifies that county commissioners' duty to cooperate with the state does not preclude counties from performing their own utilization management, and allows counties to contract for provision of primary and preventative health care services.
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Amends section 67-7903 to remove limitations on the county indigent program regarding verification of lawful presence requirements, making the program subject to general exceptions for emergency medical conditions.
Legislative Description
Amends and repeals existing law relating to the Catastrophic Health Care Cost Program to revise what is being provided to the medically indigent; to revise what is being provided for certain persons; to provide that a certain duty to cooperate does not preclude certain actions by a board of county commissioners; to revise the content of certain annual reports; to repeal law relating to medical homes; to remove certain provisions regarding follow-up necessary medical services, regarding an application for nonemergency necessary medical services, regarding requests for certain additional treatment, regarding a time period to complete a certain investigation and regarding follow-up treatment; to revise certain discretionary authority of boards of county commissioners concerning the provision of certain services to the medically indigent through contract; and to remove certain limitations related to the county indigent program.
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE COST PROGRAM
Last Action
Ref'd to Health/Wel
3/8/2011