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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

SB 5319: Medicaid reimbursement/PCPs

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

Summary

  • Requires a 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…

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 17, 2019
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Senator (R-18)
Introduced
January 17, 2019 in the Senate
Last action
January 13, 2020

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: Senator (R-18)

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. Referred to Ways & Means.
  3. And refer to Ways & Means.
  4. HLTC - Majority; without recommendation.
  5. First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care.

SB 5319 in other sessions

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