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HR 252 Original 2018 Regular Session Bacala
Urges and requests the La. Department of Health (LDH) to require all Medicaid managed care plans
to participate in the quality incentive program.
Requests further that LDH do all of the following in connection with the Quality Incentive Program:
(1)Require the Medicaid managed care plans to report to LDH their quality incentive criteria,
how those criteria will improve the quality of care for Medicaid recipients, how costs will
be reduced, what efforts were made to allow all hospitals to participate, which hospitals
managed care plans have enrolled or plan to enroll in their quality incentive programs, and
the amount of incentive payments expected to be made to each hospital.
(2)Provide to the House Committee on Appropriations, on or before Dec. 1, 2018, a copy of the
managed care plans' reports to LDH.
(3)Require managed care plans to provide testimony explaining their quality incentive programs
at a meeting of the House Committee on Appropriations or the Joint Legislative Committee
on the Budget prior to the implementation of any quality incentive program.