Bill Text: WV HB2519 | 2017 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Medicaid program compact
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-23 - Chapter 127, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 [HB2519 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2017-HB2519-Enrolled.html
WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
ENROLLED
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 2519
By Delegates Ellington, Summers, Rohrbach, Cooper, Hollen, Sobonya, Dean, Rowan and Longstreth
[Passed April 4, 2017; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-25, relating to requiring Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources contact surrounding states to establish a Medicaid compact; required reporting; and setting forth purpose of the compact.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-25, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
§9-5-25. Medicaid program compact.
(a) The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources shall contact West Virginia’s surrounding states to discuss the creation of a compact. This compact would enable each states’ health care providers to be eligible to be paid for services provided to the other states’ Medicaid participants.
(b) The Secretary shall provide a report on the creation of a Medicaid compact to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability before October 31, 2017.
