S-5007

   Amend  the amendment, S-5005, to Senate File 2117 as follows:
   1.  By striking page 4, line 30, through page 5, line 15, and inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  SUPPLEMENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FOR GROUND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED TO MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES.  The department of human services shall submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services to request authorization to establish and administer a methodology to provide supplemental reimbursement to eligible ground emergency medical transportation providers that provide ground emergency medical transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries. For purposes of this section, “eligible ground emergency medical transportation provider” means a provider who provides ground emergency medical transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries and is enrolled as a Medicaid provider during the period being claimed.
   The emergency medical transportation intergovernmental transfer obligation established under this section is contingent upon the continuation of the federal Medicaid funding methodology in effect on the effective date of this Act. If the federal methodology is changed after the effective date of this Act in a manner that negatively impacts the intergovernmental transfer obligation, as determined by the department, the department shall no longer be obligated to continue the intergovernmental transfer.>
   2.  Page 5, line 21, by striking <ninety> and inserting <eighty-five>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JOE BOLKCOM

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