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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5445
February Session, 2020
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Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING NO NEMERGENCY MEDICAL
TRANSPORTATION FOR M EDICAID BENEFICIARIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of 1
Social Services shall ensure that the state's medical assistance program 2
provides medically necessary and medically appropriate 3
nonemergency medical transportation upon the request of a program 4
beneficiary. In negotiating any contract with a transportation brokerage 5
vendor to provide nonemergency medical transportation, the 6
commissioner shall consider recommendations made in a 2020 audit of 7
the state's nonemergency medical transportation program by the state 8
Auditors of Public Accounts, including, but not limited to, requiring 9
that the contractor: (1) Immediately remove any driver deemed to pose 10
a risk to medical assistance beneficiaries, (2) have an adequate number 11
of wheelchair-accessible vehicles to meet demand, (3) accurately report 12
statistics regarding the percentage of nonemergency medical 13
transportation provided on time, and (4) promptly investigate and 14
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(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall evaluate the 16
administrative burdens placed on beneficiaries of the medical assistance 17
program and the health care providers of such beneficiaries. To the 18
extent permissible under federal law, the commissioner shall reduce the 19
number of medical necessity forms needed by such beneficiaries in 20
order to receive nonemergency medical transportation. 21
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Social Services to consider
recommendations made by the state Auditors of Public Accounts in
negotiating any contract for nonemergency medical transportation and
reduce administrative burdens on beneficiaries who need such
transportation.
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