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HB 1354 Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS) Plan.

Introduced by: Robert H. Brink | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Medical assistance services and the Virginia Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan (FAMIS). Implements certain recommendations included in the December 2001 report on the Department of Medical Assistance Services of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission as follows: (i) a requirement for tracking of the children enrolled in Medicaid as a result of the FAMIS outreach efforts; (ii) a requirement for an analysis of the reasons children dropped from the FAMIS program based on a survey of the families that dropped out; (iii) a requirement for the Department of Medical Assistance Services to update its projections of uninsured children in Virginia, children potentially eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled, and children potentially eligible for FAMIS but not enrolled; (iv) a requirement for the Department to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide eligibility to all children up to nineteen whose family incomes are at or below 133 percent of federal poverty level and to amend the FAMIS plan to provide for eligibility for children whose family incomes are above 133 percent of federal poverty level but no more than 200 percent of federal poverty level (this provision requires the leveraging of the enhanced federal match); and (v) expansion of the quarterly reports and the Director's annual report. Enactment clauses require emergency regulations to implement this provision, require the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop a coordination plan to improve communication and coordination between Medicaid and FAMIS and to provide for a formal referral and tracking process between the programs and designation of specific roles and responsibilities for staff; and require the analysis of the reasons for children being dropped from FAMIS to be based on a survey concerning certain specific questions on relocation, costs, and services.


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