Supplemental Payment Office-administered Drugs Medicaid

Medicaid - office-administered oncology drugs - providers - supplemental payment - state-only money - appropriation. The act authorizes a supplemental payment of state-only money to providers under the medicaid program of certain office-administered drugs relating to oncology who experienced a decrease in aggregate reimbursements in the 2017-18 fiscal year as a result of the implementation of the federal department of health and human services final rule for covered outpatient drugs, 81 FR 5169, published in the federal register on February 1, 2016.

The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to distribute a supplemental payment to qualified providers, as defined in the act, and includes provisions for determining the amount of each qualified provider's supplemental payment. The act authorizes the medical services board to adopt rules as necessary.

$754,000 of general fund money is appropriated to the department for the supplemental payment to qualified providers.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)