Bill Text: NH HB1568 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to reimbursement for ambulance services under the state Medicaid plan and making an appropriation therefor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-08-13 - Enrolled Adopted, Voice Vote, (In recess 06/13/2024); Senate Journal 18 [HB1568 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1568-Introduced.html
HB 1568-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2108
05/08
HOUSE BILL 1568-FN
AN ACT relative to Medicaid reimbursement for non-transport emergency medical services calls.
SPONSORS: Rep. Sellers, Graf. 18; Rep. McGough, Hills. 12; Sen. Innis, Dist 7
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires Medicaid reimbursement for non-transport emergency medical services calls.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2108
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to Medicaid reimbursement for non-transport emergency medical services calls.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Emergency Medical and Trauma Services; Medicaid Reimbursement for Non-transport Emergency Medical Services Calls. Amend RSA 153-A by inserting after section 20-a the following new section:
153-A:20-b Non-transport Emergency Medical Services Calls. The state Medicaid plan shall include coverage for non-transport emergency medical services calls. Reimbursement for such services shall not be denied solely because the patient did not require transport or refused to be transported by ambulance or other emergency medical services vehicle.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
24-2108
12/11/23
HB 1568-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to Medicaid reimbursement for non-transport emergency medical services calls.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, as it is awaiting information from the Department of Health and Human Services The Department was initially contacted on 10/2/23, with follow-up contact made on 11/15/23. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Health and Human Services
