Date of enactment: March 22, 2024
2023 Assembly Bill 616 Date of publication*: March 23, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 177
AN ACT to amend 49.45 (53m) of the statutes; relating to: Medical Assistance coverage of services provided in
an institution for mental disease.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 49.45 (53m) of the statutes is amended to
read:
49.45 (53m) COVERAGE PROGRAM FOR INSTITUTIONS
FOR MENTAL DISEASE. Subject to any necessary waiver or
other approval of from the federal department of health
and human services, or as otherwise permitted under fed-
eral law, the department may shall, if federal funding par-
ticipation is available, provide Medical Assistance cov-
erage of services provided in an institution for mental
disease to persons ages 21 to 64.
SECTION 2.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) No later than January 1, 2025, the department of
health services shall submit a request to the federal
department of health and human services for any waiver
or approval necessary to provide Medical Assistance
coverage with federal funding participation for Medical
Assistance beneficiaries who receive services during
short−term stays for acute care in psychiatric hospitals or
residential treatment settings that qualify as an institution
for mental disease.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”