Transportation Services For Medicaid Waiver Recipients

The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to create and implement an expedited provider enrollment approval process and an expedited review of qualifications for transportation service providers for medicaid waiver recipients (providers) no later than July 1, 2021. The bill requires the department to engage in a stakeholder process to develop a report that identifies barriers and potential solutions to medicaid waiver recipients accessing transportation services within the long-term support and services system and to submit the report to specified committees of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2021.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)