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House Amendment 1171

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 276, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 7, by inserting after line 4, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "   .  "Medically necessary" means the provision of
  1  6 a service, item, or procedure that will or is
  1  7 reasonably expected to do any of the following:
  1  8    a.  Arrive at a correct diagnosis.
  1  9    b.  Prevent the onset of an illness, condition, or
  1 10 disability.
  1 11    c.  Reduce or ameliorate the physical, mental,
  1 12 developmental, or behavioral effects of an illness,
  1 13 condition, injury, or disability.
  1 14    d.  Assist the individual to achieve or maintain
  1 15 optimum functional capacity in performing age-
  1 16 appropriate daily activities.
  1 17    e.  Minimize the deterioration of health status or
  1 18 reduce or prevent suffering or pain.
  1 19    Input from multiple individual sources including an
  1 20 individual or an individual's family shall be
  1 21 considered in determining what services are medically
  1 22 necessary.  The medically necessary services provided,
  1 23 as well as the type of provider and setting, which may
  1 24 include the individual's home, must be appropriate to
  1 25 the specific health needs of the individual.  A
  1 26 determination of medically necessary services shall be
  1 27 made on an individual basis only, and not on a class
  1 28 or group basis.  Determinations shall take into
  1 29 account the health care practice guidelines and
  1 30 standards that are issued by professionally recognized
  1 31 organizations or governmental bodies."
  1 32    #2.  Page 8, by striking lines 8 and 9 and
  1 33 inserting the following:  "of medically necessary."
  1 34    #3.  Page 12, by striking lines 19 through 20 and
  1 35 inserting the following:  "necessary and consistent
  1 36 with clinical standards of".
  1 37    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 38 
  1 39 
  1 40                               
  1 41 JOCHUM of Dubuque 
  1 42 SF 276.207 78
  1 43 mj/gg
     

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