SB218
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Amend KRS 205.6412 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to seek authorization from the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement a state-directed payment for physician and nonphysician professional services provided to a Medicaid beneficiary by a qualifying hospital's affiliated physician groups or physicians and other professionals employed or contracted by the qualified hospital; require the Department of Medicaid Services to direct Medicaid managed care organizations to issue payments back to January 1, 2026, upon federal approval; RETROACTIVE.
Introduced: February 20, 2026
Last action: March 20, 2026
Plain-language summary
This bill would have required Kentucky's Medicaid agency to seek federal approval to set up a specific payment program for doctors and other health professionals who work with or are employed by certain qualifying hospitals and serve Medicaid patients. If approved by the federal government, the payments would have applied retroactively to January 1, 2026. The bill did not pass. Who it may affect: Kentuckians enrolled in Medicaid, hospitals, and the physicians and health professionals affiliated with those hospitals.
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