Medicaid Third-Party Liability Payments

Added formal title page elements including 'First Regular Session', 'Seventy-fifth General Assembly', and 'REREVISED' designation.

Added sponsor lists for both House and Senate with specific member names.

Added reading dates and committee assignments for House and Senate.

Added a bill summary explaining the third-party reimbursement requirements in plain language.

Reformatted the bill text layout, converting from a diff-style presentation to a standard legislative document format with line numbers.

Removed preliminary notes about bill status and signature instructions that were present in the Final Act version.

Added a note indicating the bill has been prepared for signatures and the Governor's action status should be verified through official legislative records.

Corrected formatting on the signature page, changing handwritten-style names to typed names for the Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, Chief Clerk of the House, Secretary of the Senate, and Governor.

Fixed a typo in the statute text where 'statc's' was corrected to 'state's' in the timeline for enforcing claims.

Added new Senate sponsors (Amabile, Bridges, Cutter, Daugherty, Exum, Gonzales J., Hinrichsen, Jodeh, Kipp, Michaelson Jenet, Mullica, Coleman) to the bill's sponsorship list.

Modified the inquiry response timeline to require third parties to respond within 60 days of receiving a state department inquiry about claims submitted within three years of service provision.

Added requirement that third parties must accept state department payment of claims as equivalent to obtaining prior authorization from the third party.

Extended the enforcement window from unspecified to six years after the state department submits a claim, preventing denial based on timing or documentation format.

Title status changed from 'Engrossed' to 'Reengrossed' to indicate inclusion of all House amendments.

Seven additional sponsors were added to the House sponsorship list.

A notice was added stating that a bill summary for the reengrossed version will be available on January 23, 2025.

Added Garcia Sander as a co-sponsor in the House and Weissman as a Senate sponsor.

Changed document status from 'Introduced' to 'Engrossed' to reflect amendments adopted on second reading.

Adjusted page number formatting from 'HB25-1033' to '1033' in footer sections.