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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

HB 2515: Medicaid reimbursement/PCPs

Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid.

Summary

  • Requires medicaid payment for primary care services furnished by a nurse practitioner, a physician with a primary specialty designation of family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatric medicine or provided by subspecialists within these primary specialties, on a fee-for-service basis as well as through managed health care systems, to be at a rate not less than one hundred percent of the payment rate that…

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 14, 2016
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Eric Pettigrew (D-37)
Introduced
January 14, 2016 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016
Companion bill
SB 6272
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to ensuring access to primary care services for medicaid beneficiaries by applying the medicare payment rate floor to primary care services furnished under medicaid by providers of primary care services;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Eric Pettigrew (D-37)

3 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Paul Harris R-17Sherry Appleton D-23Chris Reykdal D-22

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2515 in other sessions

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