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Relating to the qualifications of noncertified staff providing early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment benefit services under the Medicaid program
Sponsored by the House Human Resources Committee
Topics:Health careMedicaid
Same legislation: HSB 172
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2021
- Done: House committeeFebruary 23, 2021
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Human Services would change the rules for who can provide certain preventive health services to children under Medicaid. In addition to certain college-educated staff, the state would now allow registered behavior technicians to provide these services.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the department of human services to amend the Medicaid state plan approved March 10, 2015, and retroactively effective to December 1, 2014, relating to preventive services for early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment benefits, beginning July 1, 2021, to provide that the types of nonlicensed practitioners providing such services may include, in addition to noncertified staff with a bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, or speech language pathology, those nonlicensed practitioners who hold a registered behavior technician certification from a nationally recognized accrediting body including but not limited to the behavior analyst certification board.
House subcommittee
Named February 2, 2021 (as HSB 172). On February 23, 2021 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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