| TN | HB0416 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1723 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual covera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | SB1674 | Pass | As enacted, directs the bureau to amend existing or promulgate new rules by December 31, 2024, to allow for the reimbursement of qualifying remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for such procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | HB1826 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB1998 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2051 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2015 | Engross
50% | As introduced, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | HB2211 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2490 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2461 | Pass | As enacted, directs the bureau to amend existing or promulgate new rules by December 31, 2024, to allow for the reimbursement of qualifying remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for such procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 674 |
| TN | HB2445 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2940 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB2921 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires all TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| TN | SB2801 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires all TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2791 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1740 | Engross
50% | As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual covera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1762 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB1988 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | SB0502 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | HB0916 | Engross
50% | As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Failed to pass Senate, Ayes 14, Nays 12 |
| TN | SB0229 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends eligibility for medical assistance under the TennCare program to a woman for a period up to 12 months after the date on which the woman’s pregnancy ends in live birth if the child meets the eligibility requirements for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0459 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2168 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2169 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2340 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2419 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2921 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2022 | Pass | As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2330 | Pass | As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 633 |
| TN | SB1269 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the prohibition on the governor expanding optional enrollment in the TennCare program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HB1939 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits certain individuals from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2036 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits certain individuals from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 621 |
| TN | SB0230 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1763 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from February 1, to March 1, the annual date by which the bureau of TennCare and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities are required to issue an annual joint report to the insurance committee of the hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2476 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for the same population groups and services as the Insure Tennessee proposal; clarifies that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2676 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a TennCare enrollee from staying in an emergency department or emergency room facility for more than 72 hours without medical necessity; imposes penalties on TennCare and managed care organizations for causing an enrollee’s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0404 | Fail | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB1650 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from February 1, to March 1, the annual date by which the bureau of TennCare and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities are required to issue an annual joint report to the insurance committee of the hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB1691 | Pass | As enacted, requires compliance with federal law regarding third-party liability. - Amends TCA Section 71-05-117.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
| TN | SB2091 | Pass | As enacted, requires compliance with federal law regarding third-party liability. - Amends TCA Section 71-05-117.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 531 |
| TN | HB2259 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for the same population groups and services as the Insure Tennessee proposal; clarifies that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2557 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor child who is enrolled in TennCare or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare or the CoverKids program until the minor child reaches six years of age; prohibits the bureau fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal. in Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2701 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a TennCare enrollee from staying in an emergency department or emergency room facility for more than 72 hours without medical necessity; imposes penalties on TennCare and managed care organizations for causing an enrollee’s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | SB2125 | Fail | As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor child who is enrolled in TennCare or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare or the CoverKids program until the minor child reaches six years of age; prohibits the bureau fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Failed in Senate Health and Welfare Committee / no second |
| TN | SB2402 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB2779 | Fail | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid for mental health prevention and treatment pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | SB2733 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid for mental health prevention and treatment pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB2214 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor who is enrolled in TennCare medicaid or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare medicaid and the CoverKids program until the minor reaches 18 years of age; prohibits the bure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2631 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | SB1828 | Fail | As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor who is enrolled in TennCare medicaid or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare medicaid and the CoverKids program until the minor reaches 18 years of age; prohibits the bure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Failed in Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
