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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania Bill 298 Requires Department of Human Services to Seek Medicaid Waivers for Six-Month Redeterminations and Reporting Penalties
Last action · January 23, 2025: Referred to HUMAN SERVICES, Jan. 23, 2025Sponsors: Perry Stambaugh and 5 others
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What This Bill Would Do
Pennsylvania House Bill 298 requires the Department of Human Services to seek a federal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to mandate six-month eligibility redeterminations, impose up to six-month re-enrollment bans for nondisabled, nonpregnant adults aged 19 to 64 who fail to report changes affecting eligibility, and suspend automatic and prepopulated renewal processes.
Nondisabled, nonpregnant adults aged 19 to 64 enrolled in medical assistance would face more frequent eligibility checks and potential six-month coverage denials for failing to report life circumstance changes.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
nondisabled, nonpregnant adults between nineteen and sixty-four years of age
Their medical assistance eligibility redetermination frequency changes to every six months, automatic renewals are suspended, and they face up to six months of eligibility denial for failing to report circumstance changes.
Department of Human Services
The department is required to request federal demonstration waivers, report approvals to various state entities, adopt implementation rules, and resubmit denied requests every twenty-four months.
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Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Jan 23, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to HUMAN SERVICES, Jan. 23, 2025
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