Sec. 17.5. (a) The office shall report on its progress on the development of a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program for Medicaid recipients who are eligible to participate in the Medicare program (42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.) and receive nursing facility services to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services before November 1, 2021.

     (b) Not later than February 1, 2022, the office shall report the following information and analysis to the legislative council and budget committee (in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6) regarding the implementation of a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program for Medicaid recipients who are eligible to participate in the Medicare program (42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.) and receive nursing facility services, as follows:

(1) The projected utilization of home and community based services and institutional services for the four (4) years following implementation, and including, but not limited to, information on:

(A) provider network adequacy;

(B) family caregiver programming; and

(C) costs and funding sources associated with creating and maintaining adequate provider networks and family caregiving programming.

(2) How administrative processes, including service approval and billing processes, between managed care entities and providers of services will be addressed or streamlined in a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program, with specific discussion of uniform provider credentialing, the potential of a single claims processing portal, and prior authorization processes.

(3) Projected total spending for a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program for the four (4) years following implementation. Such information shall include the identification of and impact on each source of state matching funds and overall impact on the state general fund.

(4) The expected financial impacts of a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program on the available amounts and use of the nursing facility quality assessment fee and supplemental payments to nursing facilities that are owned and operated by a governmental entity. Such information shall include an analysis on whether either of these funding streams will be diverted for uses other than the uses prior to implementation of a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program and the effects on access to acute and post-acute care services due to the expected financial impacts.

     (c) A request for proposal for the procurement of a Medicaid program to enroll a Medicaid recipient who is eligible to participate in the Medicare program (42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.) and receives nursing facility services in a risk based managed care program or capitated managed care program may not be issued until the request for proposal has been reviewed by the budget committee.

     (d) After the review of a request for proposal by the budget committee under subsection (c), the office may not enter into a final contract that would implement a program described in subsection (c) before January 31, 2023.

As added by P.L.165-2021, SEC.138. Amended by P.L.138-2022, SEC.18.