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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fourth Legislature, Second Regular Session
AMENDED
AHCCCS; postpartum visits; incentive payments
Purpose
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) and $2,448,275 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) for incentive payments to increase AHCCCS enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.
Background
In 2014, the U.S. Center for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Services (U.S. CMCS) launched a Maternal and Infant Health Initiative (MIHI) in collaboration with the states to improve maternal and infant health outcomes. One of the U.S. CMCS's goals for the MIHI is to increase the rate of postpartum visits among women participating in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program by 10 percentage points in at least 20 states over a three-year period (U.S. CMCS).
S.B. 1472 appropriates $1,000,000 from the state GF and $2,448,275 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to AHCCCS for incentive payments to increase enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $1,000,000 from the state GF and $2,448,275 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to AHCCCS to provide incentive payments to increase AHCCCS enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.
2. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by the Health and Human Services and Appropriations Committees
1. Increases the appropriations.
2. Removes the requirement that AHCCCS develop a specified plan.
Amendments Adopted by Committee of the Whole
1. The Health and Human Services Committee amendment was withdrawn.
2. Makes technical changes.
Senate Action
HHS 2/12/20 DPA 8-0-0
APPROP 2/25/20 DPA 8-1-0
Prepared by Senate Research
March 5, 2020
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