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LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE BILL 434
Introduced by Jacobson, 42; Ballard, 21; Fredrickson, 20.
Read first time January 13, 2023
Committee: Health and Human Services
1 A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to the Medical Assistance Act; to amend
2 section 68-901, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2022; to
3 provide for long-term acute care hospitals to be enrolled as
4 providers; to require submission of a state plan amendment or waiver
5 as prescribed; to harmonize provisions; to repeal the original
6 section; and to declare an emergency.
7 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
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1 Section 1. Section 68-901, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement,
2 2022, is amended to read:
3 68-901 Sections 68-901 to 68-9,101 and sections 2 and 3 of this act
4 shall be known and may be cited as the Medical Assistance Act.
5 Sec. 2. The department shall enroll long-term acute care hospitals
6 in Nebraska as providers eligible to receive funding under the medical
7 assistance program.
8 Sec. 3. No later than July 1, 2023, the department shall submit a
9 state plan amendment or waiver to the federal Centers for Medicare and
10 Medicaid Services to provide coverage under the medical assistance
11 program for long-term acute care hospitals.
12 Sec. 4. Original section 68-901, Revised Statutes Cumulative
13 Supplement, 2022, is repealed.
14 Sec. 5. Since an emergency exists, this act takes effect when
15 passed and approved according to law.
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 68-901