HB 392 - Health care management organizations; quality assessment fee; provisions

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Current Status

05/02/05 - House Date Signed by Governor

First Reader Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to indigent and elderly patients, so as to provide for a quality assessment fee on care management organizations to be used to obtain federal financial participation for medical assistance payments; to provide for authority; to provide for definitions; to establish a segregated account within the Indigent Care Trust Fund for the deposit of assessment fees; to provide for a method for calculating and collecting the assessment fees; to authorize the Department of Community Health to inspect records of care management organizations; to provide for penalties for failure to pay an assessment fee; to provide for the collection of assessment fees by civil action and tax liens; to provide for the appropriation of funds in the segregated account for medical assistance payments; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Votes

Electronically Recorded Votes
Date Time Vote No Yeas Nays NV Exc Description
03/03/05 12:43 PM House Vote #147 143 022 005 010 PASS
03/24/05 12:33 PM Senate Vote #370 041 002 008 005 PASSAGE

Status History

Bill History
Date Action
02/08/2005 House First Readers
02/09/2005 House Second Readers
02/25/2005 House Committee Favorably Reported
03/03/2005 House Third Readers
03/03/2005 House Passed/Adopted
03/04/2005 Senate Read and Referred
03/17/2005 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
03/21/2005 Senate Read Second Time
03/24/2005 Senate Third Read
03/24/2005 Senate Passed/Adopted
04/05/2005 House Sent to Governor
05/02/2005 House Date Signed by Governor
05/02/2005 Act 90
07/01/2005 Effective Date