MADAM PRESIDENT:
The Senate Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 412,
has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the
recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. IC 16-28-15-8, AS ADDED BY P.L.229-2011,
SECTION 162, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 8. (a) The money collected from the
quality assessment fee during the first year following the enactment
state fiscal year 2012 may be used only as follows:
(1) Sixty-seven and one-tenth percent (67.1%) to pay the state's
share of costs for Medicaid nursing facility services provided
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396 et seq.).
(2) Twenty-three and eight-tenths percent (23.8%) to pay the
state's share of costs for other Medicaid services provided under
Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et
seq.).
(3) Nine and one-tenth percent (9.1%) to pay prior year state
nursing facility expenditures.
(b) The money collected from the quality assessment fee during
the second year following enactment state fiscal year 2013 may be
used only as follows:
(1) Sixty-six and five-tenths percent (66.5%) to pay the state's
share of costs for Medicaid nursing facility services provided
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396 et seq.).
(2) Twenty-nine and four-tenths percent (29.4%) to pay the
state's share of costs for other Medicaid services provided under
Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et
seq.).
(3) Four and one-tenth percent (4.1%) to pay prior year state
nursing facility expenditures.
(c) The money collected from the quality assessment fee after the
second year following enactment state fiscal year 2013 may be used
only as follows:
(1) Seventy and six-tenths percent (70.6%) to pay the state's
share of the costs for Medicaid nursing facility services provided
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396 et seq.).
(2) Twenty-nine and four-tenths percent (29.4%) to pay the
state's share of costs for other Medicaid services provided under
Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et
seq.).
(d) Any increase in reimbursement for Medicaid nursing facility
services resulting from maximizing the quality assessment rate under
section 6(b) of this chapter shall be directed exclusively to initiatives
determined by the office to promote and enhance improvements in
quality of care to nursing facility residents.
(e) The office may establish a method to allow a health facility to
enter into an agreement to pay the quality assessment fee collected
under this chapter under an installment plan.
SOURCE: IC 16-28-15-14; (13)PD4322.2. -->
SECTION 2. IC 16-28-15-14, AS ADDED BY P.L.229-2011,
SECTION 162, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 14. This chapter expires June 30,
2014. 2017.
(Reference is to SB 412 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill be reassigned to the Senate Committee on Health and Provider
Services.