Bill Number: S.B. 1298

                                                                                                               Ward Floor Amendment

                                                                                                 Reference to: HHS amendment

                                                                              Amendment drafted by: Marianne Yamnik

 

 

 

• The Ward Floor Amendment requires an AHCCCS contractor to intervene if a member inappropriately seeks care at an emergency department four times or more in a six-month period.

 

• Modifies the reporting of contractor interventions and eliminates the requirement for contractors to intervene on inappropriate ambulance use.

Fifty-first Legislature                                                      Ward

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1298

 

WARD FLOOR AMENDMENT

 

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1298

 

(Reference to HHS amendment)

 

 

Page 1, line 1, strike “lines” insert “line”; strike “and 10”

Strike line 2, insert:

Line 7, after “member” insert “inappropriately”; strike “more than once” insert “four times or more”

Line 8, strike “forty-five-day” insert “six-month”

Strike lines 10, 11 and 12, insert:

Line 3, strike “c.” insert “b.”; strike “every six months”

Line 4, after “intervenes” strike remainder of line

Strike lines 5 and 6, insert “with members pursuant to this section in a manner prescribed  by the administration.’”

Amend title to conform

 

 

 

 

2/27/14

10:55 AM

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