House File 2285 - Enrolled House File 2285 AN ACT RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FOR ELIGIBLE GROUND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS THROUGH THE MEDICAID PROGRAM, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. SUPPLEMENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FOR GROUND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES PROVIDED TO MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES. 1. 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 the 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. 2. 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

House File 2285, p. 2 intergovernmental transfer obligation, as determined by the department, the department shall no longer be obligated to continue the intergovernmental transfer. Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. ______________________________ LINDA UPMEYER Speaker of the House ______________________________ CHARLES SCHNEIDER President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2285, Eighty-seventh General Assembly. ______________________________ CARMINE BOAL Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2018 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor