RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
HR 252 2018 Regular Session Bacala
Urges and requests the La. Dept. 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.