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| 4 | 4 | | LCO No. 2623 1 of 2 |
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| 6 | 6 | | General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5445 |
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| 7 | 7 | | February Session, 2020 |
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| 8 | 8 | | LCO No. 2623 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES |
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| 14 | 14 | | Introduced by: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (HS) |
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| 20 | 20 | | AN ACT CONCERNING NO NEMERGENCY MEDICAL |
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| 21 | 21 | | TRANSPORTATION FOR M EDICAID BENEFICIARIES. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 23 | 23 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 25 | 25 | | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of 1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Social Services shall ensure that the state's medical assistance program 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | provides medically necessary and medically appropriate 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | nonemergency medical transportation upon the request of a program 4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | beneficiary. In negotiating any contract with a transportation brokerage 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | vendor to provide nonemergency medical transportation, the 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | commissioner shall consider recommendations made in a 2020 audit of 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | the state's nonemergency medical transportation program by the state 8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Auditors of Public Accounts, including, but not limited to, requiring 9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | that the contractor: (1) Immediately remove any driver deemed to pose 10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | a risk to medical assistance beneficiaries, (2) have an adequate number 11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of wheelchair-accessible vehicles to meet demand, (3) accurately report 12 |
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| 37 | 37 | | statistics regarding the percentage of nonemergency medical 13 |
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| 38 | 38 | | transportation provided on time, and (4) promptly investigate and 14 |
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| 39 | 39 | | resolve complaints. 15 Raised Bill No. 5445 |
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| 43 | 43 | | LCO No. 2623 2 of 2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall evaluate the 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | administrative burdens placed on beneficiaries of the medical assistance 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | program and the health care providers of such beneficiaries. To the 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | extent permissible under federal law, the commissioner shall reduce the 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | number of medical necessity forms needed by such beneficiaries in 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | order to receive nonemergency medical transportation. 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following |
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| 52 | 52 | | sections: |
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| 54 | 54 | | Section 1 from passage New section |
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| 56 | 56 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 57 | 57 | | To require the Department of Social Services to consider |
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| 58 | 58 | | recommendations made by the state Auditors of Public Accounts in |
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| 59 | 59 | | negotiating any contract for nonemergency medical transportation and |
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| 60 | 60 | | reduce administrative burdens on beneficiaries who need such |
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| 61 | 61 | | transportation. |
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| 62 | 62 | | [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except |
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| 63 | 63 | | that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not |
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| 64 | 64 | | underlined.] |
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