Revises provisions relating to Medicaid. (BDR 38-809)

Existing law requires the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to develop, and the Department to administer, a State Plan for Medicaid, which includes coverage for certain contraceptive drugs and devices, including: (1) up to a 12-month supply of contraceptive drugs; (2) certain devices for contraception; and (3) voluntary sterilization for women. (NRS 422.063, 422.270, 422.27172) This bill additionally requires the State Plan for Medicaid to cover: (1) voluntary sterilization for men; (2) clinical services relating to covered contraceptive drugs, devices and services; and (3) the cost of language translation services provided to facilitate the provision of covered contraceptive drugs, devices and services. This bill further requires the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a methodology establishing a rate of compensation for such translation services that is cost effective and comparable to the rate paid for translation services by other governmental entities that arrange for the provision of such services. This bill also requires the State Plan to cover certain contraceptive services when provided by any provider of health care for whom the services are within his or her scope of practice, training and experience, regardless of whether the services are provided in an inpatient or outpatient setting.