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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1483
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 5656
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PATIENT -CENTERED MEDICAL HOME -
PLUS PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section, (1) 1
"federally qualified health center" has the same meaning as provided in 2
42 USC 1395x(aa)(4), as amended from time to time, and (2) "Patient-3
Centered Medical Home-Plus program" means a person-centered 4
medical program that provides comprehensive and coordinated care to 5
HUSKY Health program members under a shared savings model that 6
allows health care providers who provide quality care at reduced costs 7
to receive half of any savings. 8
(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall pay to a federally 9
qualified health center participating in the Patient-Centered Medical 10
Home-Plus program an amount equal to the amount such center was 11
due under the program in November 2024 and December 2024. The 12
commissioner shall not make shared savings payments under the 13
Patient-Centered Medical Home-Plus program until such time as the 14
arrearage of such payments to a federally qualified health center is 15
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rectified. 16
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 provide overdue
incentive payments to federally qualified health centers under the
Patient-Centered Medical Home-Plus program.
[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.]