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2017 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health

Cosgrove (Chairman), Black, Barker, Lewis, Suetterlein

Clerk: Patty Lung, Rhonda Johnson
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: February 14, 2017
Time and Place: 4:00 P.M. - 3rd FL. East Conf. Rm.

H.B. 1944

Patron: Peace

Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; certain regulations. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to revise and reissue its economic impact analysis on proposed regulations of any agency subject to the Administrative Process Act within the time limits set forth in the Department's review of regulations at the final stage pursuant to the Governor's executive order for executive branch review if certain conditions are present that would materially change the Department's analysis. The bill also establishes certain requirements related to notice to stakeholders and opportunity for comment when the Department of Medical Assistance Services posts a new regulation or final stage of a regulation to the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall, proposes a change to a provider manual, or proposes a change to guidance documents related to licensure requirements.

H.B. 2258

Patron: Filler-Corn

department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; report on activities related to suicide prevention. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on its activities related to suicide prevention across the lifespan by December 1, 2017.

H.B. 2300

Patron: O'Bannon

Department of Health; frequency of inspections. Provides that in cases in which inspections of emergency medical services agencies and vehicles, hospitals, hospices, home care organizations, restaurants, summer camps, campgrounds, and hotels are required, no licensee shall receive additional inspections until every other licensee in that category has been inspected unless the additional inspection is (i) necessary to follow up on a preoperational inspection or one or more violations, (ii) required by a uniformly applied risk-based schedule established by the Department of Health, (iii) necessary to investigate a complaint, or (iv) otherwise deemed necessary to protect the public health and safety.

H.B. 2304

Patron: Orrock

Department of Medical Assistance Services; requirements related to long-term care. Provides that the Department of Medical Assistance Services shall require all individuals who administer preadmission screenings for long-term care services to receive training on and be certified in the use of the Uniform Assessment Instrument; requires the Department to develop a program for the training and certification of preadmission screeners, develop guidelines for a standardized preadmission screening process, and strengthen oversight of the preadmission screening process to ensure that problems are identified and addressed promptly; requires the Department to make a number of changes to contracts for long-term care services provided by managed care organizations through the Medallion program; directs the Department to impose additional requirements related to submission of data and information by managed care organizations participating in the Medallion program; and requires the Department to implement a number of spending and utilization control measures in conjunction with managed care organizations participating in the Medallion program.

H.B. 2417

Patron: Landes

Department of Medical Assistance Services; fraud prevention; prepayment analytics. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to mitigate, through the use of prepayment analytics, the risk of improper payments to providers of services that are paid through the Department's fee-for-service delivery system who commit fraud, abuse, or errors.

H.B. 2477

Patron: Orrock

Department of Health to take steps to begin eliminating site evaluation and design services for onsite sewage systems and private wells. Directs the Department of Health to take certain steps to begin eliminating site evaluation and design services for onsite sewage systems and private wells provided by the Department.