West Virginia House Bill 2978 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-11 - To House Health and Human Resources
Pending: House Health & Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create a pilot program within the Department of Health and Human Resources to implement smart health cards for individuals receiving Medicaid healthcare benefits. The smart health card pilot program would (1) promote interoperability of electronic medical record systems between public and private providers, and the Department; (2) increase the quality of care received by Medicaid recipients, and reduce waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicaid program; (3) reduce unnecessary and redundant medical procedures, including diagnostic testing, and prevent prescription drug abuse by improving real-time availability of electronic medical records and reports from disparate healthcare systems; (4) reduce administrative burdens and improve payment system efficiency for health care providers accepting payments from the Medicaid program; (5) expand patient ownership of, and access to, his or her individual medical records in a personal cloud-based portal; and (6) improve security protections against identity theft and other unlawful uses of personal health information.

Improving the quality of West Virginia’s Medicaid program

Del. Matthew Rohrbach [R]

Del. Terry Waxman [R]

Del. Mick Bates [D]

Del. Rodney Pyles [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-11	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2019-02-11	House	Introduced in House
2019-02-11	House	To Health and Human Resources
2019-02-11	House	Filed for introduction

HB2978 (Carry Over) 2019-02-11 - To House Health and Human Resources
SB609 (Similar To) 2019-02-14 - To Health and Human Resources

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	10	1	New Code	See Bill Text
9	10	2	New Code	See Bill Text
9	10	3	New Code	See Bill Text
9	10	4	New Code	See Bill Text
9	10	5	New Code	See Bill Text
9	10	6	New Code	See Bill Text
9	10	7	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2978&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2978%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2978