Revision: June 22, 2017, 12:45 p.m.
SB 155 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
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2017 SESSION
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SENATE BILL 155
AN ACT relative to implementation of the Medicaid managed care program.
SPONSORS: Sen. Sanborn, Dist 9; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. McNamara, Hills. 38; Rep. T. Le, Rock. 31; Rep. M. MacKay, Hills. 30; Rep. LeBrun, Hills. 32; Rep. Martin, Hills. 23
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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This bill declares that step 2 of the Medicaid managed care program shall not be implemented before July 1, 2019.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/30/2017 1044s
03/30/2017 1218s
4May2017... 1476h
1Jun2017... 2020h
06/22/2017 2346CofC 17-0895
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to implementation of the Medicaid managed care program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Medicaid Managed Care Program; Implementation.
I. Pending a review of the New Hampshire partnership for long-term care plan by the New Hampshire Association of Counties, in consultation with the county-state finance commission, to conclude no later than July 1, 2018, and notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, 2 of the remaining unimplemented phases of the Medicaid managed care program, established in RSA 126-A:5, XIX, specifically nursing facility services and services provided under the choices for independence waiver, issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under 42 U.S.C. section 1396n(c), shall be incorporated into the Medicaid managed care delivery system beginning on July 1, 2019. The remaining provisions of step 2 of the Medicaid managed care program including services provided under the developmental disability waiver shall not be implemented before July 1, 2019.
II. The commissioner shall re-procure contracts with vendors to administer the Medicaid managed care program, with a program start date of July 1, 2019.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.