Bill > HB0501

This bill updates provisions related to health assistance. Key provisions include: - Amending the Hospital Provider Assessment Expendable Revenue Fund to allow the funds to be used to support capitated rates for Medicaid accountable care organizations and implement quality strategies. - Modifying the Nursing Care Facilities Provider Assessment Fund to allow the funds to be used for quality incentive payments to nursing care facilities, subject to CMS approval. - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to seek a Medicaid waiver to provide limited Medicaid benefits to qualified inmates leaving prison or jail for up to 90 days before release. - Expanding the Utah Premium Partnership for Health Insurance program to provide premium subsidies for adults up to 200% of the federal poverty level. - Requiring health care providers that receive Medicaid payments to notify patients that their personally identifiable information may be submitted to the Medicaid eligibility database. - Appropriating additional funds for Medicaid primary care provider rate increases and to pay county contributions to the non-federal share of Medicaid behavioral health expenditures.