MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representatives Frierson, Howell, Currie, Barker, Bennett, Dickson, Johnson, Mettetal, Mims, Turner, Warren, Watson
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE-DIVISION OF MEDICAID FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNDER THE MISSISSIPPI MEDICAID LAW AND DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THAT LAW FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2016.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Governor's Office - Division of Medicaid for the purpose of providing medical assistance under the Mississippi Medicaid Law and defraying the expenses of the administration of such law, as provided in Section 43-13-101 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016..........
............................................ $ 819,953,197.00.
SECTION 2. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the Medical Care Fund created by Section 43-13-143, Mississippi Code of 1972, for the purpose of providing medical assistance under the Mississippi Medicaid Law for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016...........................................
.............................................. $ 434,616,785.00.
SECTION 3. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in any special fund in the State Treasury to the credit of the Governor's Office - Division of Medicaid which is comprised of special source funds collected by or otherwise available to the commission, for the purpose of providing medical assistance under the Mississippi Medicaid Law and defraying the expenses of the administration of such law, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016............................... $ 4,330,032,497.00.
Prior period recovery of funds may be maintained and expended by the division when the recovery is received or finalized. Any recoveries due to audits or third party recoveries may be used to offset the cost of such audits and third party recoveries and as such, the division may escalate Contractual Services as needed for these purposes.
SECTION 4. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the Health Care Expendable Fund, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Governor's Office - Division of Medicaid for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016 $ 62,451,136.00.
The above funds shall be allocated as follows:
CHIP Program at 200% level of poverty.... $ 2,879,024.00
Eyeglasses for adults.................... $ 699,191.00
Home and Community Waiver Program........ $ 1,972,132.00
Disabled worker buy-in to the Medicaid
program................................ $ 754,715.00
Dental fee increase...................... $ 904,837.00
Medical Program Matching Funds........... $ 55,241,237.00
It is the intention of the Legislature that funds may be shifted among the above allocated line items where needed in the discretion of the Executive Director of the Division of Medicaid.
SECTION 5. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of this act, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 965
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 26
Part Time........... 0
Any transfers or escalations shall be made in accordance with the terms, conditions and procedures established by law or allowable under the terms set forth within this act. The State Personnel Board shall not escalate positions without written approval from the Department of Finance and Administration. The Department of Finance and Administration shall not provide written approval to escalate any funds for salaries and/or positions without proof of availability of new or additional funds above the appropriated level.
No general funds authorized to be expended herein shall be used to replace federal funds and/or other special funds which are being used for salaries authorized under the provisions of this act and which are withdrawn and no longer available.
None of the funds herein appropriated shall be used in violation of Internal Revenue Service’s Publication 15-A relating to the reporting of income paid to contract employees, as interpreted by the Office of the State Auditor.
SECTION 6. It is the intention of the Legislature that the Governor's Office - Division of Medicaid shall maintain complete accounting and personnel records related to the expenditure of all funds appropriated under this act and that such records shall be in the same format and level of detail as maintained for Fiscal Year 2015. It is further the intention of the Legislature that the agency's budget request for Fiscal Year 2017 shall be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in a format and level of detail comparable to the format and level of detail provided during the Fiscal Year 2016 budget request process with the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) being separated from the Medical Services Program and submitted as a separate program. In addition, the performance measures reported for the Medical Services Program shall include an unduplicated case count of individuals served by eligibility status, and the number and the costs of emergency room visits.
SECTION 7. In compliance with the "Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act of 1994," it is the intent of the Legislature that the funds provided herein shall be utilized in the most efficient and effective manner possible to achieve the intended mission of this agency. Based on the funding authorized, this agency shall make every effort to attain the targeted performance measures provided below:
FY2016
Performance Measures Target
Administrative Services
Administration as a Percent of
Total Budget (%) 3.87
Third Party Funds Recovered ($) 28,050,110.00
Clean Claims Percent - 30 Days
from Receipt (%) 99.00
Clean Claims Percent - 90 Days
from Receipt (%) 100.00
Fiscal Agent Call Center Abandoment
Rate (%) 0.97
Fiscal Agent Call Center Average
Answer Time (Seconds) 19
Increase in Electronic Health
Records (Number of) 0
Increase in E-Prescribing
Technologies (Number of) 0
Providers Submitting Electronic
Claims (Number of) 21,770
Third Party Liability Costs
Avoided ($) 1,320,101,000
Applications Processed within
Standard of Promptness (%) 90.00
Medical Services
Recipients Enrolled (Persons) 723,661
Emergency Room Visits ($) 74,606,017.00
Emergency Room Visits (Number of) 372,996
Out-stationed Eligibility Locations 100
Child Physical Exams 272,029
Adult Physical Exams 5,126
Number of Fraud & Abuse Cases
Investigated 170
Kidney Dialysis (Number of Trips) 493,552
MSCAN Diabetic Members Aged 17-75
Receiving HBA1c Test (%) 81.10
MSCAN Members with Persistent
Asthma are Appropriately
Prescribed Medication (%) 84.00
Child's Health Ins Prg (chip)
CHIP Enrollees (Number of) 48,027
Out-stationed Eligibility Locations 100
Home & Com Based Waiver Prg
Elderly & Disabled - Persons Served 20,000
Elderly & Disabled - Funded Slots 17,300
Elderly & Disabled - Total Auth Slots 20,500
Assisted Living - Persons Served 630
Assisted Living - Funded Slots 625
Assisted Living - Total Auth Slots 900
Independent Living - Persons Served 2,850
Independent Living - Funded Slots 2,850
Independent Living - Total Auth Slots 5,000
Traumatic Brain Inj - Persons Served 900
Traumatic Brain Inj - Funded Slots 900
Traumatic Brain Inj - Total Auth Slots 2,700
Intellectual Disab - Persons Served 2,700
Intellectual Disab - Funded Slots 2,200
Intellectual Disab - Total Auth Slots 2,700
A reporting of the degree to which the performance targets set above have been or are being achieved shall be provided in the agency's budget request submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee for Fiscal Year 2017.
SECTION 8. It is the intention of the Legislature that whenever two (2) or more bids are received by this agency for the purchase of commodities or equipment, and whenever all things stated in such received bids are equal with respect to price, quality and service, the Mississippi Industries for the Blind shall be given preference. A similar preference shall be given to the Mississippi Industries for the Blind whenever purchases are made without competitive bids.
SECTION 9. Of the funds appropriated herein, an amount not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) is provided to implement an Adult Foster Care program for Medicaid recipients as authorized by Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code of 1972.
SECTION 10. The division shall provide statistical and financial reports on a monthly basis to the Legislative Budget Office. These reports shall include, but are not limited to, an accounting of all funds spent and participant statistics medical program, the CHIP program, the Dialysis Transportation program, and each of the Home- and Community-Based Waiver programs, and an accounting of all funds spent in the administrative program.
The Division of Medicaid shall perform its cash flow projections on a predetermined monthly schedule and make this and any other information requested available, upon request, to the Chair of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, the House Public Health and Human Services Committee, the House Medicaid Committee, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees as well as the Legislative Budget Office.
SECTION 11. Of the funds appropriated in this act, the Division of Medicaid shall pay a per diem rate of reimbursement of no less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or more than Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) to providers of adult day services for each day of service provided to an eligible beneficiary. In order to receive this per diem rate of reimbursement, providers of adult day services shall participate in the Elderly and Disabled Waiver Program for Home- and Community-Based Services.
SECTION 12. In the division's Fiscal Year 2017 budget submission, all Medicaid 1915 (C) Home- and Community-Based Waivers shall be presented as a budget program separate from the Medical Services Program.
SECTION 13. The Division shall transfer One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) of State Support Funds to the Department of Rehabilitation Services for the support of the Independent Living Home- and Community-Based Waiver program and shall transfer One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) of State Support Funds to the Department of Human Services to support the Home Delivered Meals program.
SECTION 14. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of this act, Two Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($2,750,000.00) are provided for the purpose of funding a temporary program to provide nonemergency transportation to locations for necessary dialysis services for end-stage renal disease patients who are sixty-five (65) years of age or older or are disabled as determined under Section 1614(a)(3) of the federal Social Security Act, as amended, whose income did not exceed one hundred thirty-five percent (135%) of the nonfarm official poverty level as defined by the Office of Management and Budget and whose eligibility was covered under the former category of eligibility known as Poverty Level Aged and Disabled (PLADS). One Hundred Eighty-two Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-five Dollars ($182,535.00) of the amount provided in this section, as originally authorized in HB 865 of the 2009 Regular Session, shall come from Treasury Fund 3322.
SECTION 15. Of the funds appropriated in Sections 1 and 3, Three Hundred Ninety-eight Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Dollars ($398,550.00) General Funds and One Million One Hundred One Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Dollars ($1,101,450.00) Special Funds are provided for five (5) additional slots in the Assisted Living Waiver program for persons with Traumatic Brain Injury and in need of Cognitive Rehabilitation. The Division shall develop eligibility criteria for these additional slots.
SECTION 16. It is the intention of the Legislature that the division shall apply for enhanced federal funding for the modernization of Medicaid eligibility and enrollment IT systems that may become available to the Division of Medicaid. The division is authorized to escalate these funds in an amount not to exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) in accordance with procedures for federal fund escalations as established in Section 27-104-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, and expended for the purposes of performing such duties as set forth by law in accordance with applicable rules and regulations of the State Fiscal Officer.
SECTION 17. It is the intention of the Legislature that the funds appropriated in this act to the Governor's Office - Division of Medicaid for the Mississippi Coordinated Access Network (MS-CAN) program be used in the most efficient and effective manner possible to achieve the intended mission of the division. The division and the coordinated care organizations with which the division has contracted to conduct the MS-CAN program shall establish baselines for the health-related outcome measurement for each of the following health focus areas for presentation at the Joint Legislative Budget Committee hearings for fiscal year 2017, which will be used as the baseline levels for establishing targets for improvements in quality of care performance measures for the MS-CAN program in fiscal year 2017 and later fiscal years:
Health Focus Area Measurement
Blood sugar well controlled in Percentage of members with
people with diabetes HbA1c results less than or
equal to 8.0%
Asthma-related emergency room Percentage reduction in
(ER) visits asthma-related ER visits
Congestive heart failure (CHF) Percentage decrease in CHF-Related hospital readmissions
Obesity Percentage of persons age
eighteen and older classified
as having a documented Body
Mass Index (BMI) of 30.0 or
more regardless of sex
In addition, for comparison purposes, these same baselines for the health-related outcome measurements shall be established for similar Medicaid recipients who are not enrolled in the MS-CAN program.
SECTION 18. Of the funds appropriated in Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, funds are provided for Phase One of the Mississippi Delta Medicaid Population Health Demonstration Project.
SECTION 19. The money herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the proper fund or funds as set forth in this act, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers, in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 20. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.