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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7122
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING MO BILE DENTAL CLINICS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) For purposes of this 1
section, (1) "mobile dental clinic" means preventative or restorative 2
dental services offered by a licensed dentist or dental hygienist from a 3
van or through the use of portable equipment at various locations, and 4
(2) "fixed location" means the permanent office of a licensed dentist 5
who contracts with a mobile dental clinic and (A) is enrolled as a 6
Medicaid provider; (B) maintains the diagnostic imaging, tests and 7
charts of patients treated by the mobile dental clinic; and (C) accepts 8
and treats patients from the mobile dental clinic. 9
(b) A mobile dental clinic may submit claims for Medicaid 10
reimbursement to the Department of Social Services for dental 11
treatment of Medicaid beneficiaries that occurred not more than fifty 12
miles from the dentist's fixed location. 13
(c) The Commissioner of Social Services shall adopt regulations to 14
implement the provisions of this section. The commissioner may adopt 15 Raised Bill No. 7122
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policies and procedures to implement the provisions of this section 16
while in the process of adopting regulations, provided such policies 17
and procedures are published on the eRegulations System before such 18
policies and procedures are implemented. 19
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To allow a mobile dental clinic to submit claims for Medicaid
reimbursement for services not more than fifty miles from the fixed
dental location associated with the clinic.
[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.]