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Committee advances bill to clarify payment for off-site medical care for state facility patients
Summary
The Committee on Health Services voted to report House Bill 392 with a favorable recommendation after Representative Mary Anne Proctor said the measure clarifies the state's obligation to pay for emergent medical and psychiatric care delivered outside state behavioral health facilities.
House Bill 392, which the Committee on Health Services reported favorably, would clarify existing statutory responsibility for the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental, and Intellectual Disorders to pay for medical and psychiatric services provided to patients of state facilities when those services are delivered at community providers.
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