SB-0447, As Passed Senate, June 30, 2005
April 28, 2005, Introduced by Senators JACOBS and EMERSON and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled
"The social welfare act,"
by amending section 109f (MCL 400.109f), as added by 2000 PA 410.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 109f. (1) The department of community health shall
support the use of medicaid funds for specialty services and
supports for eligible medicaid beneficiaries with a serious mental
illness, developmental disability, serious emotional disturbance,
or substance abuse disorder. Medicaid-covered specialty services
and supports shall be managed and delivered by specialty prepaid
health plans chosen by the department of community health with
advice and recommendations from the specialty services panel
created in section 109g. The specialty services and supports shall
Senate Bill No. 447 as amended June 29, 2005
be carved out from the basic medicaid health care benefits package.
(2) Specialty prepaid health plans shall be considered
medicaid managed care organizations as described in section
1903(m)(1)(A) of title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC
1396b, and shall be responsible for providing defined inpatient
services, outpatient hospital services, physician services, other
specified medicaid state plan services, and additional services
approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services under
section 1915(b)(3) of title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC
1396n. As medicaid managed care organizations, specialty prepaid
health plans are subject to the quality [assurance] assessment fee
described in section 224b of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA
218, MCL 500.224b.