Bill Text - SB155 (2017)

Relative to implementation of the Medicaid managed care program.


Revision: March 30, 2017, 1:40 p.m.

SB 155 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

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2017 SESSION

17-0895

01/04

 

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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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies when step 2 of the Medicaid managed care program shall be implemented.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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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.  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 January 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 January 1, 2019.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.