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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7090
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 3690
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING IN EQUITABLE METHADONE MAINTENANC E
REIMBURSEMENT RATES UNDER THE MEDICAID P ROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) (a) For purposes of this 1
section: (1) "Methadone maintenance" means a chemical maintenance 2
program under which an addiction to one drug, including but not 3
limited to heroin, is treated with the drug methadone in a weekly 4
program that includes on and off-site methadone administration, drug 5
testing and counseling; and (2) "chemical maintenance provider" 6
means a provider certified and licensed by the federal Substance 7
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the state 8
Department of Public Health who meets all federal and state 9
requirements, including, but not limited to, requirements specific to 10
the provision of chemical maintenance services. 11
(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall amend the Medicaid 12
state plan to supplement provider-specific weekly methadone 13
maintenance reimbursement rates with a more equitable minimum 14
reimbursement rate applied equally to all chemical maintenance 15 Raised Bill No. 7090
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providers. 16
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Commissioner of Social Services to provide equitable
weekly reimbursement rates under the Medicaid program for all
methadone maintenance programs.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]