Provides for certain Medicaid reimbursement of providers of nonemergency secure behavioral health transport services. (BDR 38-368)

Existing law requires the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department, to administer Medicaid. (NRS 422.2357, 422.270) Section 1 of this bill requires the Director of the Department to include under Medicaid a requirement that providers of nonemergency secure behavioral health transport services that are covered by Medicaid be reimbursed for certain distances traveled while going to pick up or returning from dropping off a patient. Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change to require the Director to administer the provisions of section 1 in the same manner as the provisions of existing law governing Medicaid. Section 3 of this bill requires the Director to apply for any federal authority that is necessary to increase by: (1) at least 15 percent the rate of reimbursement for nonemergency secure behavioral health transport services covered by Medicaid when the pick-up location or drop-off location, or both, are located in a county whose population is less than 100,000 (currently all counties other than Clark and Washoe Counties); and (2) at least 10 percent for all other nonemergency secure behavioral health transport services covered by Medicaid.