Bill Text: NJ A2543 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits carriers that withdraw from New Jersey individual or small employer health insurance markets from acting as Medicaid program carriers in the State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee [A2543 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A2543-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2543

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 14, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits carriers that withdraw from New Jersey individual or small employer health insurance markets from acting as Medicaid program carriers in the State.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A carrier that withdraws from offering individual health benefit plans in the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1992, c.161 (C.17B:27A-6) or withdraws from offering small employer health benefits plans in the New Jersey Small Employer Health Benefits Program pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1992, c.162 (C.17B:27A-23), shall be ineligible from entering into a contract with the Department of Human Services to provide health benefits for eligible persons under the Medicaid program pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.) or the NJ FamilyCare program pursuant to P.L.2005, c.156 (C.30:4J-8 et al.).

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     The bill provides that a carrier that withdraws from offering individual health benefit plans in the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program or withdraws from offering small employer health benefits plans in the New Jersey Small Employer Health Benefits Program shall be ineligible to enter into a contract with the Department of Human Services to provide health benefits for eligible persons under the Medicaid program or the NJ FamilyCare program.