H576 - Department of Health and Human Services Revisions. (SL 2025-27)
Session Year 2025
Overview: Section 2.3 of S.L. 2025-27 (House Bill 576) conforms the law to reflect updated Medicaid provider screening requirements in federal regulations that took effect in 2023 and 2024. The conforming changes require heightened screening for skilled nursing facilities, portable x-ray suppliers, newly-enrolling hospice organizations, and certain providers that received a waiver of fingerprinting requirements when they initially enrolled due to a national, state, or local emergency.
The heightened screening for skilled nursing facilities are retroactively effective January 1, 2023. The heightened screening for portable x-ray suppliers, newly-enrolling hospice organizations, and certain providers that received a waiver of fingerprinting requirements when they initially enrolled due to a national, state, or local emergency are retroactively effective January 1, 2024.