Medicaid; make various amendments to the provisions of the program.

An Act To Amend Section 43-13-115, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Make Certain Technical Amendments To The Provisions That Provide For Medicaid Eligibility And To Modify Age And Income And Eligibility Criteria To Reflect The Current Criteria; To Provide That Men Of Reproductive Age Are Eligible Under The Family Planning Program; To Conform With Federal Law To Allow Children In Foster Care To Be Eligible Until Their 26th Birthday; To Eliminate The Requirement That The Division Must Apply To Cms For Waivers To Provide Services For Certain Individuals Who Are End Stage Renal Disease Patients On Dialysis, Cancer Patients On Chemotherapy Or Organ Transplant Recipients On Antirejection Drugs; To Amend Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Make Certain Technical Amendments To The Provisions That Provide For Medicaid Services To Comply With Federal Law; To Enable Rural Hospitals To Elect Against Reimbursement For Outpatient Hospital Services Using The Ambulatory Payment Classification (apc) Methodology; To Authorize The Division To Make Payment To Nursing Facilities And To Intermediate Care Facilities For Each Day, Not Exceeding 21 Days Per Year For Nursing Facilities Or 31 Days Per Year For Intermediate Care Facilities, That A Patient Is Absent From The Facility On Home Leave; To Require The Division To Update The Case-mix Payment System And Fair Rental Reimbursement System As Necessary To Maintain Compliance With Federal Law; To Authorize The Division To Implement A Quality Or Value-based Component To The Nursing Facility Payment System; To Require The Division To Reimburse Pediatricians For Certain Primary Care Services As Defined By The Division At 100% Of The Rate Established Under Medicare; To Authorize The Division To Reimburse Ambulatory Surgical Care (asc) Based On 85% Of The Medicare Asc Payment System Rate In Effect July 1 Of Each Year As Set By Cms; To Provide That The Division May Develop Alternative Models For Distribution Of Medical Claims And Supplem