Assigned to HHS & APPROP                                                                             AS PASSED BY COMMITTEE

ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Fourth Legislature, Second Regular Session

AMENDED

FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1472

AHCCCS; postpartum visits; incentive payments

Purpose

            Appropriates $1,000,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) and $2,448,275 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 participating 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 $1,000,000 from the state GF and $2,448,275 from Medicaid expenditure authority in FY 2021 to AHCCCS for contractor incentive payments to increase enrollee six-week postpartum visit rates.

Provisions

1. Appropriates $1,000,000 from the state GF and $2,448,275 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. Becomes effective on the general effective date.

Amendments Adopted by Committees

1. Increases the appropriations.

2. Removes the requirement that AHCCCS develop a specified plan.

Senate Action

HHS                2/12/20      DPA     8-0-0

APPROP         2/25/20      DPA     8-1-0

Prepared by Senate Research

February 26, 2020

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