Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0839

Relating to health; requiring the commissioners of commerce and health to adopt
uniform billing standards for health care provider transactions to comply with
certain federal requirements; changing the rural hospital planning and
transition grant program to the rural hospital improvement grant program,
expanding authorized uses of the grants to certain implementation and capital
improvement projects, eliminating the minimum strategic plan requirements,
modifying certain consideration requirements in awarding of the grants, delaying
the annual application deadline and clarifying the authority of the commissioner
of health to collect information for program evaluation purposes; providing
medical assistance (MA) and general assistance medical care (GAMC) coverage for
telemedicine consultations; requiring a cost based payment system for outpatient
hospital facility fee services for critical access hospitals under medical
assistance; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for rural hospital
improvement grant program; repealing the rural hospital demonstration project
and the rural hospital capital improvement grant and loan program (mk)