{"id":40988,"date":"2026-04-12T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40988"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:03:49","slug":"medicaid-managed-care-carve-out-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40988","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid managed care carve-out approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 10 that changes the reimbursement structure for skilled nursing services provided to certain long-term care Medicaid recipients in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28752\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28752\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=28752\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenBostar_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ellot Boster. District 29. Nebraska Legislature. November 9, 2020.  Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1604945975&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2020, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenBostar_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Eliot Bostar&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Eliot Bostar&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenBostar_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28752\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenBostar_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Eliot Bostar\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenBostar_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenBostar_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Eliot Bostar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1091, introduced by Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, requires the state Department of Health and Human Services to provide a carve-out from Nebraska\u2019s Medicaid managed care program for services and supports for long-term care clients with special needs.<\/p>\n<p>The measure requires those services instead to be administered and reimbursed through a Medicaid fee-for-service or other delivery system authorized under state or federal law. It also prohibits a skilled nursing facility from being required to enroll in an MCO as a condition of eligibility to provide such services.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, DHHS must amend Medicaid managed care contracts, including revisions to enrollment processes, no later than six months after the bill\u2019s effective date.<\/p>\n<p>LB1091 passed 49-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 10 that changes the reimbursement structure for skilled nursing services provided to certain long-term care Medicaid recipients in Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"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":[264],"class_list":["post-40988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-eliot-bostar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988","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=40988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40990,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988\/revisions\/40990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}