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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1240
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1999 Regular Session
State of Washington 56th
Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/10/1999.
Increasing
medicaid reimbursements to second class school districts.
AN
ACT Relating to medicaid reimbursements to school districts; and amending RCW
74.09.5255 and 74.09.5256.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
74.09.5255 and 1994 c 180 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
Of
the projected federal medicaid and private insurance revenue collected under
RCW 74.09.5249, ((twenty)) one-half of the percent of
potential medicaid eligible students billed by the school district as
calculated by the superintendent multiplied by the federal portion of medicaid
payments, after deduction for billing fees, shall be for incentive payments
to districts. Incentive payments shall only be used by districts for children
with disabilities.
Sec.
2. RCW
74.09.5256 and 1994 c 180 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
Districts shall reassign medicaid payments to be received under RCW 74.09.5249
through 74.09.5253, 74.09.5254 and 74.09.5255, and this section to the
superintendent of public instruction.
(2)
The superintendent of public instruction shall receive medicaid payments from
the department of social and health services for all state and federal moneys under
Title XIX of the federal social security act due to districts for medical
assistance provided in the district's special education program.
(3)
The superintendent shall use reports from the department of social and health
services, the state billing agent, districts acting as their own billing agent,
and firms to calculate the appropriate amounts of incentive payments and state
special education program moneys due each district.
(4)
Moneys received by the superintendent of public instruction shall be disbursed
for the following purposes:
(a)
Reimbursement to the department of social and health services for the
state-funded portion of medicaid payments;
(b)
Reimbursement for billing agent's fees, including those of districts acting as
their own agent and billing fees of firms;
(c)
Incentive payments to each school district((s)) equal to ((twenty))
one-half of the percent of potential medicaid eligible students
billed by the school district as calculated by the superintendent multiplied by
the federal portion of medicaid payments after deduction for billing fees; and
(d)
The remainder shall be distributed to districts as part of state allocations
for the special education program provided under RCW 28A.150.390.
(5) With respect to private insurer funds received by districts,
the superintendent of public instruction shall reduce state special education
program allocations to the districts by ((eighty percent of the amount
received)) one minus the percent calculated by the superintendent in
subsection (4)(c) of this section, after deduction for billing fees.
