{"id":26472,"date":"2019-05-24T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26472"},"modified":"2019-05-24T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T20:43:14","slug":"medicaid-managed-care-restrictions-notification-requirements-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26472","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid managed care restrictions, notification requirements approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that delays the transition of long-term care facilities to the state\u2019s Medicaid managed care program passed May 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20164\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20164\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479303110&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;110&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senwalz_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lynne Walz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lynne Walz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20164\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Lynne Walz\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Lynne Walz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB468, as introduced by Fremont Sen. Lynne Walz, prohibits long-term care and supports\u2014including skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and home and community-based services\u2014from being added to the Medicaid managed care program before July 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The bill includes provisions of LB566, sponsored by Sen. Sue Crawford of Bellevue, which require notification and a hearing of the Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee if the state Department of Insurance submits an innovation waiver to the federal government under section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>Notification\u2014and a public hearing of the Health and Human Services Committee during the public comment period\u2014also are required for a waiver submitted under section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act.<\/p>\n<p>LB468 passed on a 43-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that delays the transition of long-term care facilities to the state\u2019s Medicaid managed care program passed May 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-26472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-lynne-walz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26474,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472\/revisions\/26474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}