Bill Text: NJ S1018 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-19 - Substituted by A320 (1R) [S1018 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1018-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator LORETTA WEINBERG
District 37 (Bergen)
Senator NILSA CRUZ-PEREZ
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Allen, Pou, Beach and Gordon
SYNOPSIS
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on January 30, 2017, 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.
