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2023 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1400 (Floor Approved)

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Modify Workgroup on Medicaid Managed Care (language only)

Item 308 #1h

Item 308 #1h

Health and Human Resources
Department of Medical Assistance Services

Language

Page 392, strike lines 54 and 55.

Page 393, strike lines 1 through 9 and insert:

"EE. The Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) shall convene a workgroup to examine the impact of including all children's residential services, such as psychiatric residential treatment services and children's group home services in the Medicaid managed care program. This workgroup shall examine potential cost, program, and system of care impacts, including how local funding and the federally required independent assessment process for these services must be accounted for in managed care. This workgroup shall be comprised of relevant stakeholders including representatives from the public and private provider community, the Office of Children's Services, Department of Social Services, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Department of Planning and Budget, and staff of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees. DMAS shall report on workgroup activities to the Governor and Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees by December 1, 2023."



Explanation

(This amendment modifies language in the introduced budget which establishes a workgroup to examine the impact of including certain children's psychiatric residential treatment services in the Medicaid managed care program. It adds children's residential services and children's group home services as additional services to be examined for including in the Medicaid managed care program. Language also is modified to include representatives of the public and private provider community as members of the workgroup.)