SPONSOR: Schroer
This bill makes it unlawful for any public funds to be expended to any abortion facility, or to any affiliate or associate of an abortion facility and extends the sunsets from September 30, 2021, to September 30, 2022, for the Federal Reimbursement Allowances.
The bill removes a provision in current statute that allows any person entitled to MO HealthNet benefits to obtain benefits from any provider of services with which an agreement is in effect and which undertakes to provide the services, as authorized by the MO HealthNet division.
This bill creates provisions requiring the Department of Social Services or its divisions to suspend, revoke, or cancel any contract or provider agreement or refuse to enter into a new contract or provider agreement with any provider where it is determined that such provider is not qualified to perform the service or services required because such provider, or such provider's agent, servant, or employee acting under such provider's authority, has:
(1) A conviction related to the delivery of any item or service under Medicare or under any state health care program;
(2) A conviction related to the neglect or abuse of a patient in connection with the delivery of any health care item or service;
(3) A felony conviction related to health care fraud, theft, embezzlement, breach of fiduciary responsibility, or other financial misconduct;
(4) A felony conviction related to the unlawful manufacture, distribution, prescription, or dispensation of a controlled substance
(5) A pattern of intentional discrimination in the delivery or nondelivery of any health care item or service based on the race, color, or national origin of recipients, or was founded by a person who supported eugenics as the solution for racial, political, and social problems and who advocated for the use of birth control for "the elimination of the unfit" and stopping "the reproduction of the unfit.
(6) Been defined as an abortion facility in section 188.015, RSMo, or an affiliate or associate of such abortion facility.
Statutes affected: