BILL · 2021–22 SESSION

SB 5246: Medicaid primary care reimb.

Concerning reimbursement for primary care services for medicaid beneficiaries.

Summary

Requires the Medicaid payment for primary care providers be at least 15 percent above the medical assistance rates in effect January 1, 2019.
Requires the Medicaid payment for pediatric critical care, neonatal critical care, and neonatal intensive care providers to be at least 21 percent above the medical assistance rates in effect January 1, 2019.
Requires the Health Care Authority to direct Medicaid managed care plans to increase primary care rates through adoption of a uniform rate increase for network providers.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5246), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to reimbursement for primary care services for medicaid beneficiaries;

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

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

SB 5246 (2025–26) Energy facility site eval. · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5246 (2023–24) Supreme court fiscal notes · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5246 (2019–20) Sunshine committee recs. · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5246 (2017–18) Personal records/DEL access · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5246 (2015–16) Death benefits/LEOFF, WSPRS · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5246 (2013–14) Teacher and principal evals · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5246 (2011–12) Driving record abstracts · Enacted · Chapter 73, Laws of 2012
SB 5246 (2009–10) Motor vehicle restoration · Did not pass · died in committee