WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 2519

By Delegates Ellington, Summers, Rohrbach, Cooper, Hollen, Sobonya, Dean, Rowan and Longstreth

[Passed April 4, 2017; in effect ninety days from passage.]

 AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-25, relating to requiring Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources contact surrounding states to establish a Medicaid compact; required reporting; and setting forth purpose of the compact.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-25, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

§9-5-25. Medicaid program compact.

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources shall contact West Virginia’s surrounding states to discuss the creation of a compact.  This compact would enable each states’ health care providers to be eligible to be paid for services provided to the other states’ Medicaid participants.

(b) The Secretary shall provide a report on the creation of a Medicaid compact to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability before October 31, 2017.