COMMITTEE REPORT





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.

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LONG, Chairperson


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