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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fourth Legislature, Second Regular Session
AHCCCS; postpartum visits; incentive payments
Purpose
Appropriates $348,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) and $852,000 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) for contractor incentive payments to increase AHCCCS enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.
Background
In 2014, the U.S. Center for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Services (U.S. CMCS) launched a Maternal and Infant Health Initiative (MIHI) in collaboration with the states to improve maternal and infant health outcomes. One of the U.S. CMCS's goals for the MIHI is to increase the rate of postpartum visits among women in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program by 10 percentage points in at least 20 states over a three-year period (U.S. CMCS).
S.B. 1472 appropriates $348,000 from the state GF and $852,000 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to AHCCCS for contractor incentive payments to increase enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $348,000 from the state GF and $852,000 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to AHCCCS to provide incentive payments to contractors that increase AHCCCS enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.
2.
Directs AHCCCS to develop a plan to increase the rate at which enrollees
complete their
six-week postpartum visits by providing incentive payments to contractors who
meet the following goals:
a) in year one or year two of the plan, either 80 percent of the contractor's AHCCCS enrollees who give birth attend their six-week postpartum visit or the contractor increases the postpartum visit rate by 15 percentage points over the preceding year; and
b) in year three or each succeeding year of the plan, 80 percent of the contractor's enrollees who give birth attend their six-week postpartum visit.
3. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 10, 2020
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