Bill Text: CT HB07008 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 7008 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Medicaid Reimbursement For Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives Provided At Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-08 - Favorable Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Appropriations [HB07008 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB07008-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 7008*
*January Session, 2017*		_____HB07008HS_APP030317____

AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT FOR LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTIVES PROVIDED AT FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) For purposes of this section, (1) "long-acting reversible contraceptive" means a birth control method that may be effective for years, is reversible and includes, but is not limited to, intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants, and (2) "federally qualified health center" means a facility that serves a medically underserved area or population, provides family planning or obstetric services and qualifies for funding under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 USC 254b.

(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall seek federal approval for an amendment to the Medicaid state plan to provide a separate rate of Medicaid reimbursement to a federally qualified health center for the actual acquisition cost of a long-acting reversible contraceptive provided at the request of a Medicaid recipient. The rate of reimbursement for a long-acting reversible contraceptive shall be in addition to reimbursement to the federally qualified health center for the Medicaid recipient's visit with the health care provider who provides the contraceptive.