HB 392 — Health care management organizations; quality assessment fee; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to indigent and elderly patients, so as to provide for a quality assessment fee on care management organizations to be used to obtain federal financial participation for medical assistance payments; to provide for authority; to provide for definitions; to establish a segregated account within the Indigent Care Trust Fund for the deposit of assessment fees; to provide for a method for calculating and collecting the assessment fees; to authorize the Department of Community Health to inspect records of care management organizations; to provide for penalties for failure to pay an assessment fee; to provide for the collection of assessment fees by civil action and tax liens; to provide for the appropriation of funds in the segregated account for medical assistance payments; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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