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2018 Regular Session

House Bill 332

Medicaid; provide option for reimbursement of outpatient services at certain rural hospitals based on 101% of Medicare rate.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on January 30, 2018. The 2018 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-117, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT RURAL HOSPITALS THAT HAVE FIFTY OR FEWER LICENSED BEDS SHALL BE GIVEN THE OPTION TO BE REIMBURSED UNDER MEDICAID FOR OUTPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES BASED ON 101% OF THE MEDICARE RATE FOR THOSE SERVICES INSTEAD OF USING THE AMBULATORY PAYMENT CLASSIFICATION (APC) METHODOLOGY; TO PROVIDE THAT OUTPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY THOSE RURAL HOSPITALS SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE FIVE PERCENT REDUCTION IN THE PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT RATE APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN OTHER SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS SECTION; TO EXTEND THE DATE OF THE REPEALER ON THIS SECTION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 3 to January 30, 2018, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 3 to Jan 30 · stopped27 days

MedicaidJan 3 to Jan 30 · stopped27 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 3 – Jan 30

  1. Referred to the House committee on Medicaid
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published