Senate File 202 - Introduced





                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  JOHNSON and FEENSTRA


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the medical assistance reimbursement rate for
  2    intermediate care facilities for persons with mental
  3    retardation.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  249A.22  INTERMEDIATE CARE
  1  2 FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION ==
  1  3 REIMBURSEMENT.
  1  4    The reimbursement rate under the medical assistance program
  1  5 for intermediate care facilities for persons with mental
  1  6 retardation shall be recalculated annually on July 1 to
  1  7 include an annual inflation factor.  If the reimbursement
  1  8 methodology for such facilities provides for a maximum rate
  1  9 calculated on a percentile of all such facilities' rates, the
  1 10 maximum percentile amount shall be adjusted by the inflation
  1 11 factor determined under this section.  The annual inflation
  1 12 factor applied shall be determined based on the total skilled
  1 13 nursing facility market basket index utilized by the centers
  1 14 for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States
  1 15 department of health and human services.
  1 16                           EXPLANATION
  1 17    This bill relates to the reimbursement rate paid by the
  1 18 medical assistance (Medicaid) program for intermediate care
  1 19 facilities for persons with mental retardation by requiring
  1 20 the rate to be recalculated annually to incorporate an
  1 21 inflation adjustment specified by the bill.
  1 22    If the reimbursement methodology for the facilities
  1 23 provides for a maximum rate calculated on a percentile of all
  1 24 such facilities' rates, the maximum percentile is required to
  1 25 be adjusted by the inflation factor.
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