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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 1185: Medicaid rate floor

Assuring access to health care services for medicaid beneficiaries by applying the medicare rate floor to health care services furnished under medicaid by health care providers.

Summary

  • Requires a medicaid payment for health care services furnished by a licensed health care provider, with either a provider contract with the state health care authority on a fee-for-service basis or under a contract with a medicaid managed care organization, to be at a rate not less than one hundred percent of the payment rate that applies to those services and providers under medicare.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 16, 2019
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Monica Jurado Stonier (D-49)
Introduced
January 16, 2019 in the House
Last action
January 13, 2020

AN ACT Relating to assuring access to health care services for medicaid beneficiaries by applying the medicare rate floor to health care services furnished under medicaid by health care providers;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Monica Jurado Stonier (D-49)

11 co-sponsors (9 Democrats, 2 Republicans)

Paul Harris R-17Sharon Wylie D-49Cindy Ryu D-32Michelle Valdez R-26Laurie Dolan D-22Lillian Ortiz-Self D-21My-Linh Thai D-41Beth Doglio D-22Noel Frame D-36Amy Walen D-48Derek Stanford D-1

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.

HB 1185 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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