Introduced Version
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.
Simpson
January 12, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
Introduced
Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)
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SENATE BILL No. 353
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.
(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.