Bill Text: IN SB0353 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medicaid income spend down pay-in option.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services [SB0353 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2010-SB0353-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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SENATE BILL No. 353

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 12-7-2-136.2; IC 12-15-2-26; P.L.23-2006, SECTION 1.

Synopsis: Medicaid income spend down pay-in option. Requires (instead of allows) the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply to the federal government for an amendment to the state's Medicaid plan to allow a Medicaid recipient to elect to participate in the pay-in option in the state's Medicaid spend down program. Repeals the current noncode act on the same subject.

Effective: Upon passage.

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Simpson

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    January 12, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services.

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Introduced

Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)

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SENATE BILL No. 353

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning Medicaid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 12-7-2-136.2; (10)IN0353.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 12-7-2-136.2 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 136.2. "Pay-in option", for purposes of IC 12-15-2-26, has the meaning set forth in IC 12-15-2-26(a).

SOURCE: IC 12-15-2-26; (10)IN0353.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 12-15-2-26 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 26. (a) As used in this section, "pay-in option" refers to the method allowed under 42 U.S.C. 1396b under which a Medicaid recipient may satisfy a state's income spend down requirements by paying to the state the spend down amount each month.
    (b) Before June 1, 2010, the office shall apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services to amend the state's Medicaid plan to allow a Medicaid recipient to elect to participate in the pay-in option in the state's Medicaid spend down program allowed under 42 U.S.C. 1396b.

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    (c) The office may not implement the amendment described in subsection (b) until the office files an affidavit with the governor attesting that the amendment applied for under this section is in effect. The office shall file the affidavit under this subsection not later than five (5) days after the office is notified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that the amendment is approved.
    (d) If the office receives approval for the amendment under this section and the governor receives the affidavit filed under subsection (c), the office shall implement the amendment.
    (e) The office may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to implement this section.

SOURCE: ; (10)IN0353.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. P.L.23-2006, SECTION 1 IS REPEALED [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE].

SOURCE: ; (10)IN0353.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. An emergency is declared for this act.