Senate Bill No. 321–Senator McGinness

 

March 13, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Finance

 

SUMMARY—Makes various changes relating to state plan for Medicaid. (BDR 38‑313)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to public welfare; revising the state plan for Medicaid; requiring the state controller to transfer a certain amount of money from the intergovernmental transfer account in the state general fund to the fund for the institutional care of the medically indigent; 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.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 422.2725, the

1-3  director shall include in the state plan for Medicaid a requirement that the

1-4  state shall pay the nonfederal share of expenditures for the medical,

1-5  administrative and transactional costs, to the extent not covered by private

1-6  insurance, of a person:

1-7    (a) Who is admitted to a hospital, facility for intermediate care or

1-8  facility for skilled nursing for not less than 30 consecutive days;

1-9    (b) Who is covered by the state plan for Medicaid; and

1-10    (c) Whose net countable income per month is not more than $775 or

1-11  [156] 157 percent of the supplemental security income benefit rate

1-12  established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1382(b)(1), whichever is greater.

1-13    2.  As used in this section:

1-14    (a) “Facility for intermediate care” has the meaning ascribed to it in

1-15  NRS 449.0038.

1-16    (b) “Facility for skilled nursing” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS

1-17  449.0039.

1-18    (c) “Hospital” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.012.

1-19    Sec. 2.  NRS 422.272 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-20    422.272  1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 422.2725, the

1-21  director shall include in the state plan for Medicaid a requirement that the

1-22  state shall pay the nonfederal share of expenditures for the medical,

2-1  administrative and transactional costs, to the extent not covered by private

2-2  insurance, of a person:

2-3    (a) Who is admitted to a hospital, facility for intermediate care or

2-4  facility for skilled nursing for not less than 30 consecutive days;

2-5    (b) Who is covered by the state plan for Medicaid; and

2-6    (c) Whose net countable income per month is not more than $775 or

2-7  [157] 158 percent of the supplemental security income benefit rate

2-8  established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1382(b)(1), whichever is greater.

2-9    2.  As used in this section:

2-10    (a) “Facility for intermediate care” has the meaning ascribed to it in

2-11  NRS 449.0038.

2-12    (b) “Facility for skilled nursing” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS

2-13  449.0039.

2-14    (c) “Hospital” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.012.

2-15    Sec. 3.  1.  The state controller shall, as soon as practicable after June

2-16  30, 2001, transfer the sum of $500,000 from the intergovernmental transfer

2-17  account in the state general fund to the fund for the institutional care of the

2-18  medically indigent created by NRS 428.470.

2-19    2.  The money transferred pursuant to subsection 1 may be used to

2-20  provide assistance to a county for a payment required by an interlocal

2-21  agreement that became due during the fiscal year 2000-2001.

2-22    Sec. 4.  1.  This section and sections 1 and 3 of this act become

2-23  effective on July 1, 2001.

2-24    2.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective on July 1, 2002.

 

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