Bill Text: NH SB554 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relative to Medicaid provider enrollment licensure verification.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)

Status: (Passed) 2024-07-10 - Signed by the Governor on 07/03/2024; Chapter 0170; Effective 07/01/2024 [SB554 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB554-Enrolled.html

SB 554-FN - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

02/08/2024   0404s

2024 SESSION

24-2865

09/08

 

SENATE BILL 554-FN

 

AN ACT relative to Medicaid provider enrollment licensure verification.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Gendreau, Dist 1; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows a data match process between the department of health and human services and the office of professional licensure and certification to ensure that Medicaid providers have current valid licensure.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

02/08/2024   0404s 24-2865

09/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to Medicaid provider enrollment licensure verification.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Department of Health and Human Services; Commissioner of Health and Human Services.  Amend RSA 126-A:5 by inserting after paragraph XXXIV the following new paragraph:

XXXV.  Notwithstanding any other provisions in the law, the department of health and human services may participate in a data match process with the office of professional licensure and certification to ensure that Medicaid providers have current valid licensure by matching the provider's first and last name and the provider's social security number or other taxpayer identification number.

2  New Paragraph; Office of Professional Licensure and Certification; Duties of Executive Director.  Amend RSA 310:4 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III.  Notwithstanding any other provisions in the law, the office of professional licensure and certification may participate in a data match process with the department of health and human services to ensure that Medicaid providers have current valid licensure by matching the provider's first and last name and the provider's social security number or other taxpayer identification number.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.

 

LBA

24-2865

Amended 5/1/24

 

SB 554-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2024-0404s)

 

AN ACT relative to Medicaid provider enrollment licensure verification.

 

FISCAL IMPACT: [   ] State [   ] County [   ] Local [ X ] None

 

METHODOLOGY:

The Office of the Legislative Budget Assistant states this bill, as amended by the Senate, will have no fiscal impact.

 

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

None

 

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