Bill Text: MI SB0649 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Human services; medical services; certain pilot projects for specialty behavioral health benefits; provide for. Amends sec. 109f of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.109f).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-12-28 - Assigned Pa 224'17 With Immediate Effect [SB0649 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0649-Engrossed.html
SB-0649, As Passed Senate, December 6, 2017
SENATE BILL No. 649
November 8, 2017, Introduced by Senator SHIRKEY and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled
"The social welfare act,"
by amending section 109f (MCL 400.109f), as amended by 2005 PA 84.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
109f. (1) The department of community health shall
support
the use of medicaid Medicaid
funds for specialty services
and
supports for eligible medicaid Medicaid
beneficiaries with a
serious mental illness, developmental disability, serious emotional
disturbance,
or substance abuse use disorder. Medicaid-covered
specialty services and supports shall be managed and delivered by
specialty
prepaid health plans chosen by the department. of
community
health with advice and recommendations from the specialty
services
panel created in section 109g. The
specialty services and
supports
shall be carved out from the basic medicaid Medicaid
health care benefits package.
(2)
Specialty prepaid health plans shall be considered
medicaid
are Medicaid managed care organizations as described in
section
1903(m)(1)(A) of title XIX, of the social security act, 42
USC
1396b, and shall be and
are responsible for providing defined
inpatient services, outpatient hospital services, physician
services,
other specified medicaid Medicaid
state plan services,
and
additional services approved by the centers for medicare and
medicaid
services Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services under
section
1915(b)(3) of title XIX, of the social security act, 42 USC
1396n.
As medicaid managed care organizations, specialty prepaid
health
plans are subject to the quality assurance assessment fee
described
in section 224b of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA
218,
MCL 500.224b.
(3) This section does not apply to a pilot project authorized
under section 298(3) of article X of 2017 PA 107.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
