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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022 | |
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J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N | |
TO AMEND THE MEDICAID SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION WAIVER REQUESTS | |
AND RENEWALS | |
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Introduced By: Senator Joshua Miller | |
Date Introduced: March 01, 2022 | |
Referred To: Senate Health & Human Services | |
1 | WHEREAS, The General Assembly enacted Chapter 12.4 of Title 42 entitled “The |
2 | Rhode Island Medicaid Reform Act of 2008”; and |
3 | WHEREAS, A legislative enactment is required pursuant to Rhode Island General Laws |
4 | 42-12.4-1, et seq.; and |
5 | WHEREAS, Rhode Island General Laws § 42-7.2-5(3)(i) provides that the Secretary of |
6 | the Executive Office of Health and Human Services is responsible for the review and |
7 | coordination of any Medicaid section 1115 demonstration waiver requests and renewals as well |
8 | as any initiatives and proposals requiring amendments to the Medicaid state plan or category II or |
9 | III changes as described in the demonstration, “with potential to affect the scope, amount, or |
10 | duration of publicly-funded health care services, provider payments or reimbursements, or access |
11 | to or the availability of benefits and services provided by Rhode Island general and public laws”; |
12 | now therefore be it |
13 | RESOLVED, That, in pursuit of a more cost-effective consumer choice system of care |
14 | that is fiscally sound and sustainable, the legislature approves the following proposal to amend |
15 | the demonstration: |
16 | (1) Implement a behavioral health per diem add-on for particularly complex patients, who |
17 | have been hospitalized for six (6) months or more, are clinically appropriate for discharge to a |
18 | nursing facility, and where the nursing facility is Medicaid certified to provide or facilitate |
19 | enhanced levels of behavioral healthcare or Medicaid recipients with a medically-based mental |
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1 | health or behavioral disorder demonstrating significant behaviors as shown in a minimum of |
2 | thirty (30) days of clinical behavioral documentation residing in a nursing facility; and be it |
3 | further |
4 | RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
5 | transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Governor of the State of Rhode Island, and |
6 | to Dr. James McDonald, MD, MPH, Interim Director of the Department of Health, and to |
7 | Womazetta Jones, MA, Secretary of the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human |
8 | Services. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N | |
TO AMEND THE MEDICAID SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION WAIVER REQUESTS | |
AND RENEWALS | |
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1 | This joint resolution would approve an amendment the Medicaid section 1115 |
2 | demonstration waiver requests and renewals. |
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