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OK SB1609
Bill
Status
2/6/2012
Primary Sponsor
Constance Johnson
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AI Summary
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Creates the "Complex Needs Patient Act" to establish protections for Medicaid patients with complex medical needs from service cuts.
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Directs Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish a separate benefit category within state Medicaid for complex needs patients and provide coverage for individually configured complex rehabilitation technology.
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Defines "complex needs patient" to include individuals with progressive neuromuscular diseases, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and similar conditions resulting in significant physical or functional needs.
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Requires complex needs patients receiving complex rehabilitation technologies to be evaluated by qualified health care professionals (physical therapists, occupational therapists) and qualified complex rehabilitation technology suppliers meeting specific accreditation and staffing standards.
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Becomes effective November 1, 2012.
Legislative Description
Medicaid; creating the Complex Needs Patient Act. Effective date.
Medicare and Medicaid
Last Action
Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee
2/7/2012