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2006 SESSION

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HB 831 Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan; individuals in health maintenance organizations.

Introduced by: John J. Welch, III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan. Requires that, insofar as feasible, individuals eligible for Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS) Plan must be enrolled in health maintenance organizations. The bill modifies the present requirement that the health care benefits provided under FAMIS must be through the existing Department of Medical Assistance Services' contracts with health maintenance organizations and other providers, or through new contracts with HMOs, health insurance plans, or other entities or through employer-sponsored health insurance.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Three-part medical assistance program.  Requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to revise the state plan for medical assistance in all ways necessary to implement a three-part medical assistance services program in the Commonwealth that is structured to include (i) the present Virginia Medical Assistance Program, revised to require all recipients be enrolled in managed care, (ii) the present Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan (FAMIS), also revised to require all eligible individuals to be enrolled in managed care, and (iii), upon obtaining approval of the necessary waiver, the implementation of enhanced benefits accounts (health care savings accounts), using electronic funds transfer technology and electronic benefits cards, that provide incentives to recipients to manage their health care through access to funds that are deposited into their accounts for purchasing private health insurance or for the purchase of other health care items or services, as set forth in the revised state plan for medical assistance.