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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 207
BY SENATOR MOUNT
HEALTH SERVICES. Provides for contracts for fiscal intermediary services in processing
claims of health care providers. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 39:198(D)(2) and (8), relative to contracts for fiscal intermediary2
services in processing claims of health care providers; to provide for submission of3
justification for the issuance of a solicitation for proposal; to provide for the exercise4
of an option to renew; to provide for public hearings; and to provide for related5
matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 39:198(D)(2) and (8) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as8
follows: 9
ยง198. Types of contracts permitted10
The types of contracts permitted in the procurement of data processing11
equipment, related services, and software are defined herein, and the provisions of12
this Part supersede, with respect to such procurements, any existing conflicting13
statutory provisions.14
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D. Contracts for fiscal intermediary services in processing claims of health16
care providers. State agencies may enter into contracts for fiscal intermediary17 SB NO. 207
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services in processing claims of health care providers. The term of such a contract1
shall be one hundred twenty months. In the event special circumstances, as provided2
in Paragraph (9), necessitate, additional one-year extensions of the contract may be3
granted. The award process and final contract shall include the following:4
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(2) Justification for the contract shall be submitted to the state central6
purchasing agency and shall be presented in a public hearing submitted to the House7
and Senate committees on Health health and Welfare welfare , meeting jointly, or8
a joint subcommittee thereof at least forty-five days prior to the issuance of a9
solicitation for proposals. Within thirty days of receipt of the justification by the10
House and Senate committees on health and welfare, either committee may call11
a meeting separately or jointly for purpose of conducting a public hearing on12
the justification which was submitted. Such justification shall include13
identification and consideration of all factors, including costs, relevant to the14
solicitation for proposals and the final contract.15
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(8) No option to renew such contract shall be exercised by the state until after17
a public hearing concerning such renewal has been held before the House and Senate18
committees on Health and Welfare, meeting jointly or a joint subcommittee thereof.19
the following criteria have been satisfied:20
(a) The Department of Health and Hospitals has conducted a public21
hearing concerning such renewal.22
(b) The Department of Health and Hospitals submits to the House and23
Senate committees on health and welfare a notice of intention by the24
Department of Health and Hospitals to exercise the option to renew such25
contract and a copy of any public testimony which was taken at the public26
hearing held by the Department of Health and Hospitals. The Senate and House27
committees on health and welfare, meeting separately or jointly, may hold a28
public hearing concerning such renewal within thirty days following the receipt29 SB NO. 207
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of a notice of intention by the Department of Health and Hospitals to exercise1
the option to renew such contract.2
(c) The Senate and House committees on health and welfare, meeting3
separately or jointly, have conducted a public hearing concerning such renewal4
or thirty days have elapsed from the date the Department of Health and5
Hospitals submitted a notice of intention to renew such contract to the Senate6
and House committees on health and welfare and neither committee has posted7
a public notice of meeting concerning the renewal of such contract.8
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Greg Waddell.
DIGEST
Present law requires that the award process for a contract for fiscal intermediary services
include justification for the contract being submitted to the state central purchasing agency
and shall be presented in a public hearing to the House and Senate committees on Health and
Welfare, meeting jointly, or a joint subcommittee thereof prior to the issuance of a
solicitation for proposals.
Proposed law removes the requirement that the justification shall be presented in a public
hearing to the House and Senate committees on health and welfare and makes this
requirement permissive requiring the public hearing only in the event either committee
requests such a hearing within 30 days from submission of the justification by DHH to the
committees.
Present law provides that no option to renew such contract shall be exercised by the state
until after a public hearing concerning such renewal has been held before the House and
Senate committees on Health and Welfare, meeting jointly or a joint subcommittee thereof.
Proposed law provides that no option to renew such contract shall be exercised by the state
until the following criteria have been satisfied:
(1) The Department of Health and Hospitals has conducted a public hearing concerning
such renewal.
(2)The Department of Health and Hospitals submits to the House and Senate
committees on health and welfare a notice of intention by the Department of Health
and Hospitals to exercise the option to renew such contract and a copy of any public
testimony which was taken at the public hearing held by the Department of Health
and Hospitals. The Senate and House committees on Health and Welfare, meeting
separately or jointly, may hold a public hearing concerning such renewal within
thirty days following the receipt of a notice of intention by the Department of Health
and Hospitals to exercise the option to renew such contract.
(3)The Senate and House committees on health and welfare, meeting separately or
jointly, have conducted a public hearing concerning such renewal or thirty days have
elapsed from the date the Department of Health and Hospitals submitted a notice of SB NO. 207
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intention to renew such contract to the Senate and House committees on Health and
Welfare and neither committee has posted a public notice of meeting concerning the
renewal of such contract.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 39:198(D)(2) and (8))