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ND SCR4021
Concurrent Resolution
Status
4/8/2015
Primary Sponsor
Tim Mathern
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AI Summary
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Directs Legislative Management to study how the federal Medicaid "institution for mental disease" exclusion impacts North Dakota, including effects on Medicaid enrollees and private and public sector providers
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Identifies that Medicaid does not reimburse psychiatric institutions for services to enrollees aged 21 to 64, causing patients with acute psychiatric needs to be diverted to general hospital emergency departments lacking psychiatric expertise
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Notes the exclusion negatively impacts three freestanding psychiatric hospitals in North Dakota and multiple other mental health service providers
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References the 2015-17 executive budget allocation of $76.2 million ($62.5 million from general fund) for state hospital operations
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Requires Legislative Management to report findings and recommendations with any necessary implementing legislation to the Sixty-fifth Legislative Assembly
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to study how the institution for mental disease Medicaid reimbursement exclusion impacts this state, including the impact on Medicaid enrollees and on private and public sector providers.
Last Action
Filed with Secretary Of State 04/08
4/8/2015