***Adopted***

AMENDMENT No. 2 PROPOSED TO

Committee Sub. for SB NO. 2945

By Senator(s) Bean, Hall

AMEND by striking lines 372 through 379 and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

(6) Physicians' services. * * * All fees for physicians' services shall be reimbursed at a rate not less than seventy percent (70%) and not more than ninety percent (90%) of the rate established on January 1, 1999, under Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, as amended), subject to the availability of funds specifically appropriated therefor, and which shall, in no event, be less than seventy percent (70%) of the rate established on January 1, 1994. The division shall pay ten percent (10%) of any co-payment for physicians' services rendered to a person dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.