Bill Text: NH SB135 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to rate setting parity for Medicaid state plan case management services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Hearing: 02/06/2025, Room 101, Legislative Office Building, 10:30 am; Senate Calendar 8 [SB135 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB135-Introduced.html
SB 135-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-1131
05/02
SENATE BILL 135-FN
AN ACT relative to rate setting parity for Medicaid state plan case management services.
SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill directs the department of health and human services to annually establish rates for Medicaid state plan case management services to create rate parity for such services within the program.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-1131
05/02
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to rate setting parity for Medicaid state plan case management services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Rate Setting Parity for Medicaid State Plan Case Management Services. Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 18-b the following new section:??
126-A:18-c Rate Setting Parity for Medicaid State Plan Case Management Services.
I. Annually, on or before October 1, the department of health and human services shall establish unit rates for all case management services paid under the state Medicaid plan which better reflect the average cost to deliver services.
II. The department shall consider the factors of economy, efficiency, quality of care, and access to care, in accordance with guidelines in federal regulations.
III. The department shall ensure equitable rate parity by giving comprehensive consideration to factors which cause disparity, including but not limited to administrative payments of overhead costs made to certain providers, in the calculations to achieve parity.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
25-1131
1/20/25
SB 135-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to rate setting parity for Medicaid state plan case management services.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department was contacted on 1/8/25 for a fiscal note worksheet. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Senate Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Health and Human Services
