Kentucky Senate Bill 20 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)
Status: Passed on April 8 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-04-08 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 55)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #4) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms, and permit a provider that has exhausted an internal appeals process of a Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) to be entitled to an administrative appeals hearing; require an MCO to send a final determination letter; establish proceedings for an administrative appeals hearing; establish a mechanism for attorneys' fees; establish a fee for the party that does not prevail to cover costs of the proceeding; clarify that this bill applies to all MCO contracts enacted on or after July 1, 2016; amend KRS 13B.020 to include the provider appeals process as a type of administrative hearings to be conducted by the CHFS.

AN ACT relating to Medicaid provider appeals and declaring an emergency.

Sen. Ralph Alvarado [R]	Sen. Joe Bowen [R]	Sen. Danny Carroll [R]	Sen. Jimmy Higdon [R]
Sen. Stan Humphries [R]	Sen. Damon Thayer [R]	Sen. Robin Webb [D]	Sen. Steve West [R]
Sen. Whitney Westerfield [R]	Sen. Mike Wilson [R]	Sen. George Wise [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-08	Senate	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 55)
2016-03-29	Senate	delivered to Governor
2016-03-29	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2016-03-28	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2016-03-28	Senate	received in Senate
2016-03-28	House	3rd reading, passed 99-0
2016-03-25	House	taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
2016-03-24	House	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 25, 2016
2016-03-23	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-03-22	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2016-03-17	House	posted in committee
2016-02-16	House	to Health & Welfare (H)
2016-02-11	House	received in House
2016-02-10	Senate	passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (2)
2016-02-10	Senate	Committee Substitute (1) withdrawn
2016-02-10	Senate	3rd reading
2016-02-10	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 10, 2016
2016-02-10	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2)
2016-02-10	Senate	recommitted to Health & Welfare (S)
2016-02-10	Senate	taken from Rules
2016-01-26	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-01-14	Senate	recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2016-01-14	Senate	taken from Rules
2016-01-14	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-01-13	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-01-07	Senate	to Health & Welfare (S)
2016-01-06	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20/bill.doc
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20/SCS2.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20/FN.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB20/vote_history.pdf