Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1184 Compare Versions

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5	5	April 9, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives VINING, MOORE OMOKUNDE, PALMERI,
6	6	CONSIDINE, BARE, CLANCY, CONLEY, EMERSON, HONG, NEUBAUER, OHNSTAD,
7	7	RATCLIFF, SHELTON, SINICKI, STUBBS, SUBECK and MADISON, cosponsored by
8	8	Senators AGARD, CARPENTER, L. JOHNSON, LARSON, SMITH and SPREITZER.
9	9	Referred to Committee on Education.
10	10	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
11	11	AN ACT to amend 49.45 (39) (b) 1. and 49.45 (39) (b) 2. of the statutes; relating
12	12	to: payment for school medical services.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	Under current law, if a school district or a cooperative educational service
15	15	agency elects to provide school medical services and meets certain requirements,
16	16	DHS is required to reimburse the school district or cooperative educational service
17	17	agency for 60 percent of the federal share of allowable charges for the school medical
18	18	services that they provide. If the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually
19	19	Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of
20	20	Hearing elects to provide school medical services and meets certain other
21	21	requirements, DHS is also required to reimburse DPI for 60 percent of the federal
22	22	share of allowable charges for the school medical services that the Wisconsin Center
23	23	for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program
24	24	for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing provide. Further, under current law, DHS is
25	25	required to reimburse school districts, cooperative educational service agencies, and
26	26	DPI, on behalf of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the
27	27	Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, for 90
28	28	percent of the federal share of allowable school medical services administrative costs.
29	29	This bill increases the amount that DHS is required to reimburse a school
30	30	district, cooperative educational service agency, and DPI, on behalf of the Wisconsin
31	31	Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services
32	32	Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, for provided school medical services to
33	33	100 percent of the federal share of allowable charges for the school medical services.
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38	38	The bill also increases the amount that DHS is required to reimburse a school
39	39	district, cooperative educational service agency, and DPI, on behalf of the Wisconsin
40	40	Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services
41	41	Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, to 100 percent of the federal share of
42	42	allowable school medical services administrative costs.
43	43	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
44	44	an appendix to this bill.
45	45	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
46	46	enact as follows:
47	47	SECTION 1. 49.45 (39) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
48	48	49.45 (39) (b) 1. `Payment for school medical services.' If a school district or a
49	49	cooperative educational service agency elects to provide school medical services and
50	50	meets all requirements under par. (c), the department shall reimburse the school
51	51	district or the cooperative educational service agency for 60 100 percent of the federal
52	52	share of allowable charges for the school medical services that it provides and, as
53	53	specified in subd. 2., for allowable administrative costs. If the Wisconsin Center for
54	54	the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for
55	55	the Deaf and Hard of Hearing elects to provide school medical services and meets all
56	56	requirements under par. (c), the department shall reimburse the department of
57	57	public instruction for 60 100 percent of the federal share of allowable charges for the
58	58	school medical services that the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually
59	59	Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of
60	60	Hearing provides and, as specified in subd. 2., for allowable administrative costs. A
61	61	school district, cooperative educational service agency, the Wisconsin Center for the
62	62	Blind and Visually Impaired, or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the
63	63	Deaf and Hard of Hearing may submit, and the department shall allow, claims for
64	64	common carrier transportation costs as a school medical service unless the
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85	85	SECTION 1
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87	87	department receives notice from the federal health care financing administration
88	88	that, under a change in federal policy, the claims are not allowed. If the department
89	89	receives the notice, a school district, cooperative educational service agency, the
90	90	Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or the Wisconsin Educational
91	91	Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing may submit, and the department
92	92	shall allow, unreimbursed claims for common carrier transportation costs incurred
93	93	before the date of the change in federal policy. The department shall promulgate
94	94	rules establishing a methodology for making reimbursements under this paragraph.
95	95	All other expenses for the school medical services provided by a school district or a
96	96	cooperative educational service agency shall be paid for by the school district or the
97	97	cooperative educational service agency with funds received from state or local taxes.
98	98	The school district, the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the
99	99	Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, or the
100	100	cooperative educational service agency shall comply with all requirements of the
101	101	federal department of health and human services for receiving federal financial
102	102	participation.
103	103	SECTION 2. 49.45 (39) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
104	104	49.45 (39) (b) 2. `Payment for school medical services administrative costs.' The
105	105	department shall reimburse a school district or a cooperative educational service
106	106	agency specified under subd. 1. and shall reimburse the department of public
107	107	instruction on behalf of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or
108	108	the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing for
109	109	90 100 percent of the federal share of allowable administrative costs, using time
110	110	studies, beginning in fiscal year 1999-2000. A school district or a cooperative
111	111	educational service agency may submit, and the department of health services shall
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139	139	allow, claims for administrative costs incurred during the period that is up to 24
140	140	months before the date of the claim, if allowable under federal law.
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