AN ACT relating to Medicaid.
     Create a section of noncodified language recognizing the importance of transparency in Medicaid managed care; amend KRS 6.940 to prohibit certain open records exemptions from applying to managed care companies when those companies are utilizing Kentucky Medicaid dollars; require each Medicaid managed care company to appear before the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee each year as a condition of doing business in the Commonwealth; require each Medicaid managed care company to prepare and forward an annual report detailing revenues, expenditures, observed trends in Kentucky health and other matters requested by the committee; state additional issues that are not subject to open records exemptions in the context of questioning during a meeting or preparation of the annual report by the Medicaid Oversight committee; provide that all information reported shall not identify individual patients and shall conform with HIPAA.

     Jan 4-introduced in Senate
     Jan 5-to State & Local Government (S)