Bill Text: NJ A742 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits hospital charges for care provided to county inmates at county correctional facilities to Medicaid rate.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A742 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A742-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 742

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN DIMAIO

District 23 (Warren and Hunterdon)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Limits hospital charges for care provided to county inmates at county correctional facilities to Medicaid rate.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning hospital care for inmates at county correctional facilities and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A general hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) that contracts or enters into an agreement with a county correctional facility to provide inpatient or outpatient health care services to county correctional inmates, shall price and bill for the cost of the health care services rendered by the hospital to the inmates at the same rates as paid by the Medicaid program pursuant to P.L.1968, c.410 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.).

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 60th day following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires a general hospital in the State that contracts or enters into an agreement with a county correctional facility to provide inpatient or outpatient health care services to county correctional inmates, to price and bill for the cost of the health care services rendered by the hospital to the inmates at the same rates as paid by the Medicaid program.

     The cost of providing hospital-based health care services to county inmates at county correctional facilities is increasing at an alarming rate.  The intent of this bill is to set limits on what hospitals can charge the counties for care of their inmates, and thereby establish some controls for county governments over increases in the cost of inmate health care services.