BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 5372: Medicaid access program
Creating the medicaid access program.
Summary
- Establishes the Medicaid Access Program Account.
- Creates a covered lives assessment on Medicaid managed care organizations and health carriers.
- Increases Medicaid professional services rates up to the equivalent Medicare rates.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 20, 2025
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Marcus Riccelli (D-3)
- Introduced
- January 20, 2025 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 2026
- Companion bill
- HB 1392
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to creating the medicaid access program;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Marcus Riccelli (D-3)
5 co-sponsors (4 Democrats, 1 Republican)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care.
SB 5372 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5372 (2023–24) DNR land
- SB 5372 (2021–22) Hemp/registration & cert.
- SB 5372 (2019–20) Local project review
- SB 5372 (2017–18) Audits finding noncompliance
- SB 5372 (2015–16) Fish and wildlife policies
- SB 5372 (2013–14) Eliminating death penalty
- SB 5372 (2011–12) Vessel taxation & permitting
- SB 5372 (2009–10) School influenza vaccination