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Senate committee hears bill to speed rate updates for federally qualified health centers
Summary
Senator John Mann proposed shortening the Medicaid cost-reporting window and allowing rate reviews for Federally Qualified Health Centers, saying the changes would let clinics reflect current costs faster.
Senator John Mann, sponsor of Senate File 1622, told the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Finance and Policy Committee on March 11 that the bill would change how Federally Qualified Health Centers are reimbursed under Medicaid. "This bill does 2 things," Mann said: it moves the cost-reporting window from three-to-four years prior to one-to-two years prior, and it allows rate review when there is a change in "time intensity, duration, or amount of services."
The change aims to reduce a multi-year lag between FQHCs' current costs and the encounter-rate reimbursement they receive, proponents said. Lee Homan, chief executive officer of…
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