Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Health Care Professionals, Hospitals And Health Facilities, Medicaid, Physicians, Retroactive Legislation
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-02-20 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Amend KRS 205.6412 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to seek authorization from the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement a state-directed payment for physician and nonphysician professional services provided to a Medicaid beneficiary by a qualifying hospital's affiliated physician groups or physicians and other professionals employed or contracted by the qualified hospital; require the Department of Medicaid Services to direct Medicaid managed care organizations to issue payments back to January 1, 2026, upon federal approval; RETROACTIVE.
Sponsors
- A. Neighbors (primary), primary
- K. Banta (primary), primary
- G. Brown Jr. (primary), primary
- B. Chester-Burton (primary), primary
- M. Clines (primary), primary
- S. Dietz (primary), primary
- R. Duvall (primary), primary
- K. Jackson (primary), primary
- DJ Johnson (primary), primary
- K. King (primary), primary
- S. Lewis (primary), primary
- S. McPherson (primary), primary
- M. Meredith (primary), primary
- K. Moser (primary), primary
- S. Riley (primary), primary