Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1194

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 12-15-1-20.

Synopsis: Disproportionate share payments program study. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to develop, maintain, and use a computer system to store specified documents concerning the disproportionate share hospital payment program. Establishes the interim study committee on Medicaid supplemental programs to study specified issues. Requires the legislative evaluation and oversight policy subcommittee to study specified programs relating to the disproportionate share hospital payment program in 2009 and 2010 and to report its findings by July 1, 2010. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the select joint commission on Medicaid oversight.)

Effective: Upon passage; July 1, 2009.





Crawford




    January 12, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.







Introduced

First Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2009)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1194



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning Medicaid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 12-15-1-20; (09)IN1194.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 12-15-1-20 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2009]: Sec. 20. The office shall develop, maintain, and use a computer system to store documents concerning the disproportionate share hospital payment program, the hospital care for the indigent program, and the hospital care for the indigent upper payment level program. The system must include the following documents related to the programs:
        (1) Federal and state laws.
        (2) Federal and state rules and regulations.
        (3) Policies and guidance statements.
        (4) Medicaid waivers.
        (5) Medicaid state plan amendments.
        (6) Funding allotments to health care facilities.
        (7) Funding formulas and any other explanatory information detailing how an individual allotment is calculated.

SOURCE: ; (09)IN1194.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE] (a) As used in this

SECTION, "committee" refers to the interim study committee on Medicaid supplemental programs established by this SECTION.
    (b) There is established the interim study committee on Medicaid supplemental programs. The committee shall study issues concerning Medicaid supplemental payment programs, including the following:
        (1) Federal intergovernmental transfer leveraging and alternative revenue generating options if currently used leveraging is determined by the federal government to be invalid.
        (2) The merits and effect of expanding the Indiana check-up plan established by IC 12-15-44.2-3 to cover additional childless adults through a federal Medicaid waiver or Medicaid state plan amendment.
    (c) The committee shall operate under the policies governing study committees adopted by the legislative council.
    (d) The affirmative votes of a majority of the voting members appointed to the committee are required for the committee to take action on any measure, including a final report.
    (e) This SECTION expires November 1, 2009.

SOURCE: ; (09)IN1194.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2009] (a) As used in this SECTION, "committee" refers to the legislative evaluation and oversight policy subcommittee established by IC 2-5-21-6.
    (b) The committee shall evaluate the following programs under the office of the secretary of family and social services during 2009 and 2010:
        (1) The disproportionate share hospital care payment program.
        (2) The hospital care for the indigent program.
        (3) The hospital care for the indigent upper payment level program.
    (c) The committee shall submit a report of the findings of the committee to the legislative council not later than July 1, 2010.
    (d) The report described in this SECTION replaces any other report the committee was previously scheduled to conduct in 2009 and report on by July 1, 2010.
    (e) This SECTION expires December 31, 2010.

SOURCE: ; (09)IN1194.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. An emergency is declared for this act.