Bill Text: NJ A320 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-6)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-06 - Approved P.L.2017, c.239. [A320 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A320-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 320

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

Assemblyman  PAUL D. MORIARTY

District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblywoman  PAMELA R. LAMPITT

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Johnson, Diegnan, Assemblywoman Jimenez, Assemblyman Coughlin and Assemblywoman McKnight

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Human Services Committee on May 19, 2016, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning Medicaid reimbursement for personal care services and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

      1.   The hourly reimbursement rate for personal care services within the Medicaid program established pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.), whether the services are provided in the Medicaid fee-for-service delivery system or through a managed care delivery system, shall be no less than ¹[$15.50 per hour] the established State Medicaid fee-for-service rate¹, except that this amount shall be adjusted on July 1 of every fifth calendar year following the effective date of this act in direct proportion to the rise or fall in the Consumer Price Indices average for all urban wage earners for the New York metropolitan and the Philadelphia metropolitan regions as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor during the last full calendar year preceding the date upon which the adjustment is made.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to services provided on or after the effective date of this act and to any Medicaid managed care contract executed or renewed on or after the effective date of this act.