House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes

The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky’s health care.

House Bill 217 addresses some “unintended consequences” of last year’s “pill mill bill” by easing some of the bills regualtions. The bill also tightens restricitions on prescription drugs, reports Ryan Alessi of cn|2.

The other measure, House Bill 5, deals with payment problems of the Medicaid managed care system. Itl would apply the prompt-payment laws to managed-care organizations and would move
Medicaid late-payment complaints and disputes to the insurance department; those are now
handled by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which administers
Medicaid.

Both bills are expected to see action in the Senate.