Amends the requirements for a Medicaid home and community based services waiver. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply to the federal government for a new Medicaid waiver to provide assisted living services. Specifies that provisions concerning reimbursement for assisted living services for individuals who are aged and disabled and receiving services under a Medicaid waiver apply to the new assisted living Medicaid waiver. Requires certain Medicaid recipients to choose the recipient's provider of integrated health care coordination. Provides that integrated health care coordination provided by a provider of assisted living services is not duplicative of certain other services. Specifies that an individual is no longer a member of the covered population upon receiving nursing facility services for 100 consecutive days. Provides that on the one hundredth day, the individual is not a member of the covered population and shall receive Medicaid services under a fee for service program. Prohibits an operator of a mental health chat bot (operator) from sharing or selling: (1) individually identifiable health information of an Indiana user; and (2) user input. Creates an exception. Sets forth advertising and disclosure requirements for an operator. Prohibits the use of an artificial intelligence system to impersonate or act as a substitute for a licensed practitioner. Amends the effective date for a provision concerning a home health aide competency evaluation program training hour requirement. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Requires the department of insurance to take certain actions to ensure that health carriers comply with network adequacy standards. Requires a person to provide written notice to a provider of any amendment to a health provider contract not less than 60 days before the proposed effective date of the amendment. Prohibits the use of downcoding in a specified manner. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to reimburse providers of mental illness or substance abuse services at rates that are at least as favorable as rates are for providers of medical or surgical services. Sets forth limitations on an insurer and a health maintenance organization retroactively auditing a paid claim or seeking recoupment or a refund of a paid claim. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35.)

Statutes affected:
Introduced Senate Bill (S): 12-8-1.6-2, 12-8-1.6-4, 12-8-1.6-9, 12-8-1.6-10, 12-15-13-1.8, 16-18-2-163, 16-27.5-5-5, 25-13-1-4, 25-13-1-6, 25-13-1-10.7, 25-14-1-3, 27-1-37-11, 27-8-5-15.8, 27-8-5.7-10, 27-8-5.7-11, 27-13-7-14.2, 27-13-36.2-8, 27-13-36.2-9, 36-8-4-5, 36-8-13-9