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IN HB1336
Bill
Status
1/16/2018
Primary Sponsor
Mara Reardon
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AI Summary
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Defines "children's hospital" as a freestanding general acute care hospital designated by Medicare as a children's hospital or that predominantly serves inpatients under 18 years of age using Medicare's criteria.
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Applies to both inpatient and outpatient Medicaid services provided by children's hospitals.
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Requires Indiana's office of the secretary of family and social services to reimburse children's hospitals located in states contiguous to Indiana at the same rate as Indiana-based children's hospitals.
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Reimbursement applies when the out-of-state children's hospital provides a Medicaid-covered service to an Indiana Medicaid recipient.
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Effective date: July 1, 2018.
Legislative Description
Medicaid reimbursement for out-of-state hospitals. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to reimburse an out-of-state children's hospital for Medicaid services provided to a Medicaid recipient at the same reimbursement rate at which the office reimburses a children's hospital located in Indiana.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
1/16/2018