Mississippi Senate Bill 2816 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: Failed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That For Telehealth Services Provided By Federally Qualified Health Centers And Community Health Centers, The Distant Or Hub Site Provider Shall Be Reimbursed The Applicable Medicaid Fee For The Telehealth Services Provided; To Provide That Telehealth Services Provided By Federally Qualified Health Centers And Community Health Centers Shall Be Considered To Be Billable At The Same Face-to-face Encounter Rate Used For All Other Medicaid Reimbursements To Those Centers Under The Prospective Payment System; And For Related Purposes.

Community health centers; revise reimbursement for telehealth services.

Sen. Robert Jackson [D]	Sen. David Jordan [D]	Sen. Hillman Frazier [D]	Sen. Albert Butler [D]
Sen. Derrick Simmons [D]	Sen. Willie Simmons [D]	Sen. Joseph Thomas [D]	Sen. Tammy Witherspoon [D]
Sen. Sampson Jackson [D]	Sen. Barbara Blackmon [D]	Sen. Angela Turner-Ford [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	Senate	Died In Committee
2020-02-17	Senate	Referred To Medicaid;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/SB/SB2816.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2816IN.htm