MS SB2823 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 13 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-04-16 - Conferees Named McGee,Mansell,Hood
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Summary

An Act To Amend Section 43-13-115, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Make Certain Technical Amendments To The Provisions That Provide For Medicaid Eligibility, To Conform With Federal Law To Allow Children In Foster Care To Be Eligible Until Their 26th Birthday; To Authorize The Division Of Medicaid To Apply For A Federal Family Planning Waiver Or To Amend Its State Plan For Such Purpose; To Amend Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code Of 1972, As Amended By House Bill No 970, 2024 Regular Session, To Make Certain Technical Amendments To The Provisions That Provide For Medicaid Services, To Comply With Federal Law; To Provide That The Division Of Medicaid Shall Update The Case-mix Payment System And Fair Rental Reimbursement System As Necessary To Maintain Compliance With Federal Law; To Revise Certain Provisions Related To Family Planning Services, Including That Contraceptives May Be Prescribed And Dispensed In 12-month Supply Increments; To Require The Division To Submit A Waiver By July 1, 2024, To Cms To Authorize The Division To Conduct Less Frequent Medical Redeterminations For Eligible Children Who Have Certain Long-term Or Chronic Conditions That Do Not Need To Be Reidentified Every Year; To Delete Technical Provisions Related To The Mississippi Hospital Access Program (mhap); To Require The Division To Reimburse Pediatricians For Certain Primary Care Services As Defined By The Division At 100% Of The Rate Established Under Medicare; To Require The Division, In Consultation With The Mississippi Hospital Association, To Develop Alternative Models For Distribution Of Medical Claims And Supplemental Payments For Inpatient And Outpatient Hospital Services; To Provide That Supplemental Payments To A Hospital Shall Not Decrease By More Than 5% When Compared To A Hospital's Prior Year Payment Unless That Hospital Has Closed, Or Changed Services Or Patient Volume Which Impact That Hospital's Payment, And The Division Shall Not Substantially Change The Methodologies Used To Calculate A Hospital's Supplemental Payment; To Extend The Date Of Repeal On The Provisions That Provide For Certain Reimbursements To Any Border City University-affiliated Pediatric Teaching Hospital; To Provide That The Division Shall Contract With The State Department Of Health To Provide Perinatal High-risk Management/infant Services System For Any Eligible Beneficiary That Cannot Receive Such Services Under A Different Program; To Authorize The Division To Reimburse For Services At Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers; To Extend The Date Of Repeal On Such Section; To Require The Division To Cover A Continuing Glucose Monitoring (cgm) Service As A Pharmacy Benefit When Certain Conditions Are Met; To Include Additional Licensed Providers In The Division's Upper Payment Limits Program; To Authorize The Division To Provide Reimbursement For Neuromuscular Tongue Muscle Stimulator For The Reduction Of Snoring And Obstructive Sleep Apnea; To Require The Division To Develop And Implement A Method For Reimbursement Of Autism Spectrum Disorder Services Based On A Continuum Of Care For Best Practices In Medically Necessary Early Intervention Treatment; To Provide That The Division May Reimburse Ambulatory Surgical Care (asc) Based On 100% Of The Medicare Asc Payment System Rate In Effect July 1 Of Each Year As Set By The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Services; To Require The Division To Reimburse Ambulance Transportation Service Providers That Provide An Assessment, Triage, Treat Or Transport Eligible Medicaid Beneficiaries To An Alternative Destination In This State Or Provide An Assessment Or Treat Eligible Medicaid Beneficiaries In Place; To Set Certain Reimbursement Levels For Such Providers; To Amend Section 43-13-305, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Certain Provisions Related To Medicaid And Third-party Benefits To Comply With Federal Law; To Amend Section 43-11-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define Adult Day Care Facility; To Amend Section 43-11-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Beginning July 1, 2025, To Operate An Adult Day Care Center In Mississippi, A Facility Provider Shall Be Licensed With The Licensing Division Of The State Department Of Health; To Establish That Mississippi Medicaid Waiver Providers Are Required To Have A State License And Have A Medicaid Provider Contract With The Division Of Medicaid; To Amend Section 43-13-117.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The Division To Reimburse Adult Day Care Centers; And For Related Purposes.

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Title

Medicaid; revise various technical provisions related thereto, including reimbursement levels and facility eligibility.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-04-03 - House - House Passed As Amended (Y: 109 N: 4 NV: 9 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-13 - Senate - Senate Passed As Amended (Y: 44 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-04-16HouseConferees Named McGee,Mansell,Hood
2024-04-12SenateConferees Named Blackwell,Boyd,Wiggins
2024-04-09SenateDecline to Concur/Invite Conf
2024-04-04HouseReturned For Concurrence
2024-04-03HousePassed As Amended
2024-04-03HouseAmended
2024-03-27HouseTitle Suff Do Pass As Amended
2024-03-18HouseReferred To Medicaid
2024-03-15SenateTransmitted To House
2024-03-13SenatePassed As Amended
2024-03-13SenateAmended
2024-03-13SenateCommittee Substitute Adopted
2024-03-05SenateTitle Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2024-02-19SenateReferred To Medicaid

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
43111Amended CodeSee Bill Text
431113Amended CodeSee Bill Text
4313115Amended CodeSee Bill Text
4313117Amended CodeSee Bill Text
4313305Amended CodeSee Bill Text

Mississippi State Sources


Bill Comments

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