PA HB1677

Legislative Description

In general powers and duties, providing for coordinated service delivery pilot program; in public assistance, further providing for meeting special needs, work supports and incentives, for medical assistance payments for institutional care and providing for nonemergency medical transportation services; creating opportunities for hospitals and managed care organizations to improve health care outcomes and to further reduce unnecessary and inappropriate services in the Commonwealth's medical assistance program; in the aged, establishing the LIFE Program; in children and youth, further providing for provider submissions; in Statewide quality care assessment, further providing for definitions, for implementation, for administration, for the Quality Care Assessment Account and for expiration; in departmental powers and duties as to supervision, further providing for definitions; in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions; and imposing a duty on the Department of Human Services.

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