Medicaid birth costs recovery-amendments.

Plain English Breakdown

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Medicaid Birth Costs Recovery Amendments

This act changes the notification period and vital records disclosure requirements for Medicaid birth costs.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the time limit for notifying the Department of Family Services about birth costs from sixty days to one hundred twenty days after an unmarried recipient gives birth.
• Requires the Department of Health to disclose vital records to the Department of Family Services as allowed by law.

Who It Names or Affects

• Unmarried recipients who receive Medicaid for childbirth
• The Wyoming Department of Health
• The Wyoming Department of Family Services

Terms To Know

Medicaid

A government program that helps certain people pay for medical care.

Vital records

Official documents like birth certificates and marriage licenses.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill did not pass and is now inactive, meaning it will not become law in the current session.
• It does not specify what kind of vital records must be shared or how they are used by other departments.

Current Bill Text

20LSO-0297
2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0297
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0024

Medicaid birth costs recovery-amendments.

Sponsored by: Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; amending the procedures for birth cost collection actions; requiring the disclosure of vital records as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 14
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2
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1003(a) is amended to read:

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2
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1003.

Birth cost recovery
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medical assistance
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(a)

Not more than
sixty (60)
one hundred twenty (120)
days after an unmarried recipient of medical assistance gives birth to a child, the department of health shall notify the department of family services of the actual amount of birth costs paid by medical assistance
and shall disclose any vital records to the department of family services to the extent allowed by law
.

Section 2.

This act shall apply to births by unmarried recipients of medical assistance and related medical assistance costs occurring on and after the effective date of this act.

Section 3.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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