Assembly Bill No. 386–Committee on Health
and Human Services

March 4, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing funding for institutional care of medically indigent persons under state plan for Medicaid. (BDR 38-519)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to public welfare; prospectively revising the state’s share of expenditures for payments made for the institutional care of medically indigent persons pursuant to the state plan for Medicaid; providing monetary assistance to counties for their share of such payments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 422.272 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 422.272 1. The administrator shall include in the state plan for

1-3 Medicaid a requirement that the state shall pay the nonfederal share of

1-4 expenditures for the medical, administrative and transaction costs of a

1-5 person:

1-6 (a) Who is admitted to a hospital, facility for intermediate care or

1-7 facility for skilled nursing for not less than 30 consecutive days;

1-8 (b) Who is covered by the state plan for Medicaid; and

1-9 (c) Whose net countable income per month is not more than $775 or

1-10 [156] 157 percent of the supplemental security income benefit rate

1-11 established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1382(b)(1), whichever is greater [.] ,

1-12 for the 2001 calendar year. On January 1 of each calendar year

1-13 thereafter, the percentage of the supplemental security income benefit

1-14 rate used in this paragraph to determine the maximum eligible net

1-15 countable income per month must be increased by 1 percent, up to a

1-16 maximum of 300 percent.

2-1 2. As used in this section:

2-2 (a) "Facility for intermediate care" has the meaning ascribed to it in

2-3 NRS 449.0038.

2-4 (b) "Facility for skilled nursing" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS

2-5 449.0039.

2-6 (c) "Hospital" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.012.

2-7 Sec. 2. 1. The state controller shall, as soon as practicable after
2-8 July 1, 1999, transfer the sum of $300,000 from the intergovernmental

2-9 transfer account in the state general fund to the fund for the institutional

2-10 care of the medically indigent created pursuant to NRS 428.470.

2-11 2. The money transferred to the fund for the institutional care of the

2-12 medically indigent pursuant to subsection 1 may be used to provide

2-13 assistance to a county for a payment required by an interlocal agreement

2-14 which became due during fiscal year 1998-1999 or becomes due during

2-15 fiscal year 1999-2000 or 2000-2001.

2-16 3. As used in this section, "interlocal agreement" has the meaning

2-17 ascribed to it in NRS 428.440.

2-18 Sec. 3. 1. This section and section 2 of this act become effective on

2-19 July 1, 1999.

2-20 2. Section 1 of this act becomes effective on January 1, 2001.

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