HB583
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require school districts that elect to provide health care services through a school nurse to bill the school-based Medicaid program for medically necessary services provided to a student enrolled in Medicaid; establish requirements for third-party Medicaid billing vendors contracted by school districts; permit school nurses to receive preventative dental services training from the Department for Public Health; permit the school district to bill the school-based Medicaid program for preventative dental services that are within a school nurse's scope of practice.
Introduced: February 6, 2026
Last action: March 25, 2026
Plain-language summary
This bill would require school districts that employ school nurses to bill Medicaid when they provide medically necessary services to students who are already enrolled in Medicaid. It also sets rules for outside billing companies that school districts hire to handle that process, and allows school nurses to receive training in preventive dental care so districts can bill Medicaid for those services as well. The goal is to help school districts recover available Medicaid funding for health services they are already delivering to eligible students. Who it may affect: public school students enrolled in Medicaid, school districts, and school nurses.
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Legislative History
Primary Sponsor
Co-sponsors (10)
Roll calls
House: 3rd reading, passed 86-0 with Floor Amendment (1)
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