Bill Text: NJ S2771 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish and contract for Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider. *

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-21 - Substituted by A4228 (1R) [S2771 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2771-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2771

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED JUNE 18, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish and contract for Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on June 18, 2018, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning ¹[an] a Medicare primary assignment and¹  audit program for the SHBP and the SEHBP, amending P.L.2008, c.89 and supplementing P.L.2007, c.103 (C.52:14-17.46.1 et seq).

 

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

 

     1.    Section 17 of P.L.2008, c.89 ¹[(C.52:14-17.26a)] (C.52:14-17.27a)¹ is amended to read as follows: 

     17.  a.  The State Health Benefits Commission shall establish an audit program through which it shall conduct a continuous review of the various public employers participating in the State Health Benefits Program for the purpose of ensuring that only eligible employees and retirees, and their dependents, are receiving health care coverage under the program.  Every public entity whose employees are covered by the program, as well as employees and retirees thereof, and their dependents, and any other public entity having relevant information, shall cooperate fully with the commission and shall provide all information, records and documents requested by the commission in connection with an audit.

     b.    The State Health Benefits Commission shall establish ¹[an audit program] and contract for a Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program¹ through which it shall conduct a continuous review of the State Health Benefits Program for the purposes of ensuring that all persons who are participants and their dependents of the State Health Benefits Program and who are eligible for Medicare under federal law ¹[,]¹ are properly enrolled in Medicare ¹[at the time of initial eligibility]¹ with Medicare as the primary provider of their health care benefits coverage and with the State Health Benefits Program as their secondary provider of their health care benefits coverage.

(cf: P.L.2008, c.89, s.17)

 

     2.    (New section)  The School Employees' Health Benefits Commission shall establish ¹[an audit program] and contract for a Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program¹ through which it shall conduct a continuous review of the School Employees' Health Benefits Program for the purposes of ensuring that all persons who are participants and their dependents of the School Employees' Health Benefits Program and who are eligible for Medicare under federal law ¹[,]¹ are properly enrolled in Medicare ¹[at the time of
initial eligibility]¹ with Medicare as the primary provider of their health care benefits coverage and with the School Employees' Health Benefits Program as their secondary provider of their health care benefits coverage.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.