ASSEMBLY, No. 320
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
Assemblyman PAUL D. MORIARTY
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblywoman PAMELA R. LAMPITT
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman RAJ MUKHERJI
District 33 (Hudson)
Senator LORETTA WEINBERG
District 37 (Bergen)
Senator NILSA CRUZ-PEREZ
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Johnson, Diegnan, Assemblywoman Jimenez, Assemblyman Coughlin, Assemblywomen McKnight, Mosquera, Muoio, Schepisi, Assemblyman Karabinchak, Assemblywoman Jasey, Assemblymen Giblin, Eustace, Assemblywomen Downey, Caride, Rodriguez-Gregg, Senators Allen, Pou, Beach, Gordon, Beck, Assemblymen O'Scanlon, Chiaravalloti, Gusciora and Assemblywoman Pinkin
SYNOPSIS
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for personal care services.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Human Services Committee on May 19, 2016, with amendments.
An Act concerning Medicaid reimbursement for personal care services and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The hourly reimbursement rate for personal care services within the Medicaid program established pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.), whether the services are provided in the Medicaid fee-for-service delivery system or through a managed care delivery system, shall be no less than 1[$15.50 per hour] the established State Medicaid fee-for-service rate1, except that this amount shall be adjusted on July 1 of every fifth calendar year following the effective date of this act in direct proportion to the rise or fall in the Consumer Price Indices average for all urban wage earners for the New York metropolitan and the Philadelphia metropolitan regions as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor during the last full calendar year preceding the date upon which the adjustment is made.
2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to services provided on or after the effective date of this act and to any Medicaid managed care contract executed or renewed on or after the effective date of this act.