Bill Text: HI SB668 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Medicaid.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. [SB668 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SB668-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to medicaid.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that title 42 Code of Federal Regulations section 431.53 requires that a state's medicaid plan ensure necessary transportation for medicaid recipients to and from medicaid service providers and must describe the methods used to meet the transportation requirement.
The legislature further finds that the Hawaii medicaid state plan provides non-emergency individualized transportation such as taxi transportation for medicaid recipients "in areas not served by a bus system, or when travel by bus would be either hazardous or cause extreme hardship to a recipient who is ill or has a physical or mental impairment." However, many of Hawaii's medicaid recipients with disabilities do not qualify for non-emergency individualized transportation under the Hawaii medicaid state plan because they are physically and mentally able to take the city and county of Honolulu's special transit service for persons with disabilities. Thus, Honolulu's special transit service is the only non-emergency medical transportation option for some medicaid recipients with disabilities who require non-emergency medical transportation in order to receive medicaid services, do not have access to a private vehicle, or are not eligible for non-emergency individualized transportation services, such as taxi transportation.
The legislature recognizes that Honolulu's special transit service, with increased funding, could provide more efficient and effective transportation services for medicaid recipients with disabilities.
The legislature further recognizes that Honolulu's special transit service, as a public transit system which transports medicaid recipients to and from providers of medicaid services, is eligible to receive funding from the department of human services, Med-QUEST division, for non-emergency medical transportation.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department of human services, Med-QUEST division, to amend the Hawaii medicaid state plan to include the city and county of Honolulu's special transit service as a method of providing non-emergency medical transportation so that the special transit service may qualify as a provider of non-emergency medical transportation and receive reimbursement for transportation medicaid recipients to and from providers of medicaid services.
SECTION 2. The department of human services, Med-QUEST division, shall amend the Hawaii medicaid state plan to include the city and county of Honolulu's special transit service as a method used to ensure necessary transportation of medicaid recipients to and from providers of medicaid services.
SECTION 3. The department of human services, Med-QUEST division, shall submit the amended Hawaii medicaid state plan to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for review and approval.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Medicaid; Special Transit Services; Non-Emergency Medical Transportation; Hawaii State Medicaid Plan; Amendment
Description:
Requires the department of human services, Med-QUEST division, to amend the Hawaii medicaid state plan to include the city and county of Honolulu's special transit service as a method of providing non-emergency medical transportation so that the special transit service may receive reimbursement.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
