Bill Text: MI SB0348 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Human services; medical services; certain interpretations of existing Medicaid provider policy; require prospective effective date. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding sec. 111n.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0178'19 With Immediate Effect [SB0348 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-SB0348-Chaptered.html

Act No. 178

Public Acts of 2019

Approved by the Governor

December 20, 2019

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 20, 2019

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 20, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

state of michigan

100th Legislature

Regular session of 2019

Introduced by Senators MacGregor, Barrett, Lucido, Bullock, Wojno, Bizon, Stamas, Hertel, VanderWall and Hollier

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 348

AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 111n.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 111n. Except as otherwise provided in this section, if the department issues a new interpretation of existing Medicaid provider policy directly affecting nursing facility Medicaid cost reports, that change in policy must have a prospective effective date. A policy may have a retrospective effective date as part of a state plan amendment approval or waiver approval, or if required by state law, federal law, or judicial ruling.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

 

Secretary of the Senate

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor

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