Assembly Bill 995

Relating to: treating property taxes as a deduction to annual household income for purposes of determining eligibility and deductible amounts under the prescription drug assistance program for the elderly; exempting amounts claimed for depreciation for purposes of calculating farm and self-employment income under the Medical Assistance and Badger Care health care programs; requiring Medical Assistance incentive payments to hospitals that establish a physician order entry record system; prescriptions for antibiotic drugs for treatment of chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomonas; the requirements for examinations for nursing home administrator licenses and for reciprocal nursing home administrator licenses and creating an exemption from such requirements; provision of home and community-based services under a community integration program to persons relocated from facilities; discrimination in prescription drug prices; health care provider service rates and insurer health care services reimbursement rates; expanding the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program to include provision of services to students from 4-year-old kindergarten to grade 6 in public elementary schools, charter schools, and private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; allowing any provider to participate in a health care plan under the terms of the plan, requiring an annual period for providers to elect to participate in health care plans, and requiring notice to a provider of the reason for exclusion from a health care plan; treatment of prescription drug costs, diagnostic testing, and payments under mandated insurance coverage of treatment for nervous and mental disorders and alcoholism and other drug abuse problems; increasing the limits for insurance coverage of nervous or mental health disorders or alcoholism or other drug abuse problems; an exception to confidentiality requirements for treatment records; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. relating to: treating property taxes as a deduction to annual household income for purposes of determining eligibility and deductible amounts under the prescription drug assistance program for the elderly; exempting amounts claimed for depreciation for purposes of calculating farm and self-employment income under the Medical Assistance and Badger Care health care programs; requiring Medical Assistance incentive payments to hospitals that establish a physician order entry record system; prescriptions for antibiotic drugs for treatment of chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomonas; the requirements for examinations for nursing home administrator licenses and for reciprocal nursing home administrator licenses and creating an exemption from such requirements; provision of home and community-based services under a community integration program to persons relocated from facilities; discrimination in prescription drug prices; health care provider service rates and insurer health care services reimbursement rates; expanding the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program to include provision of services to students from 4-year-old kindergarten to grade 6 in public elementary schools, charter schools, and private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; allowing any provider to participate in a health care plan under the terms of the plan, requiring an annual period for providers to elect to participate in health care plans, and requiring notice to a provider of the reason for exclusion from a health care plan; treatment of prescription drug costs, diagnostic testing, and payments under mandated insurance coverage of treatment for nervous and mental disorders and alcoholism and other drug abuse problems; increasing the limits for insurance coverage of nervous or mental health disorders or alcoholism or other drug abuse problems; an exception to confidentiality requirements for treatment records; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.