Moratoria extended for School-Based administration and transportation Services
February 23, 2009
The Stimulus Bill extends Moratorium.
Extension of Moratoria on Medicaid Regulations. The bill extends moratoria on Medicaid regulations for targeted case management, provider taxes, and school-based administration and transportation services through June 30, 2009. The bill also adds a moratorium on the Medicaid regulation for hospital outpatient services through June 30, 2009. The provision includes a Sense of Congress that the Secretary of HHS should not promulgate regulations concerning payments to public providers, graduate medical education, and rehabilitative services. These provisions are estimated to cost $105 million.
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The Stimulus Legislation Passed and President Obama Signed It
What Does That Mean For Us?
The stimulus package included an extension of the moratorium protecting reimbursement for school-based administrative and transportation services until June 30. This freezes the cut included in CMS-2287 until that time, which give us a few more months to come up with a permanent solution. The original moratorium would have expired on March 30. In brief, billing for administrative and transportation services remains available until at least June 30, 2009.
The legislation also extended moratoria on other ill-advised CMS regulations affecting disability programs, provider taxes, graduate medical education, hospital outpatient services, and targeted case management.
Details on the specific language to follow.
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LEAnet extends its gratitude and congratulations to the hundreds and hundreds of you who responded to our alert and lent your support through organizational signatures on a letter to the leaders in both the House and Senate. Once again, your participation demonstrates that grass roots politics works. In this case, the efficiency of your grass roots participation was nothing less than amazing - going in to the Joint Conference Committee session, only the House bill contained the moratorium language. There was no moratorium language in the Senate bill. We had less than 36 hours to obtain signatures and forward our letter to the appropriate legislators. Working with our friends in the hospital, disability, children's rights, organized labor, and Medicaid reform groups, we were able to demonstrate very strong support for the moratoria.
Now on to a permanent statutory solution . .
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Gregory K. Morris, Esq
Executive Director
LEAnet
phone: 916-222-9162
fax: 516-706-2271
theleanet@gmail.com
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