Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR.
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblyman PARKER SPACE
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
Senator TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Harold J. Wirths, Assemblywoman Lopez, Assemblyman Freiman and Assemblywoman DiMaso
SYNOPSIS
Requires SHBP and SEHBP to establish and contract for Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program ensuring that all persons in SHBP and SEHBP eligible for Medicare have Medicare as primary provider.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Budget Committee on June 18, 2018, with amendments.
An Act concerning 1[an] a Medicare primary assignment and1 audit program for the SHBP and the SEHBP, amending P.L.2008, c.89 and supplementing P.L.2007, c.103 (C.52:14-17.46.1 et seq)
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 17 of P.L.2008, c.89 1[(C.52:14-17.26a)] (C.52:14-17.27a)1 is amended to read as follows:
17. a. The State Health Benefits Commission shall establish an audit program through which it shall conduct a continuous review of the various public employers participating in the State Health Benefits Program for the purpose of ensuring that only eligible employees and retirees, and their dependents, are receiving health care coverage under the program. Every public entity whose employees are covered by the program, as well as employees and retirees thereof, and their dependents, and any other public entity having relevant information, shall cooperate fully with the commission and shall provide all information, records and documents requested by the commission in connection with an audit.
b. The State Health Benefits Commission shall establish 1[an audit program] and contract for a Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program1 through which it shall conduct a continuous review of the State Health Benefits Program for the purposes of ensuring that all persons who are participants and their dependents of the State Health Benefits Program and who are eligible for Medicare under federal law 1[,]1 are properly enrolled in Medicare 1[at the time of initial eligibility]1 with Medicare as the primary provider of their health care benefits coverage and with the State Health Benefits Program as their secondary provider of their health care benefits coverage.
(cf: P.L.2008, c.89, s.17)
2. (New section) The School Employees’ Health Benefits Commission shall establish 1[an audit program] and contract for a Medicare Primary Assignment and Audit Program1 through which it shall conduct a continuous review of the School Employees’ Health Benefits Program for the purposes of ensuring that all persons who are participants and their dependents of the School Employees’ Health Benefits Program and who are eligible for Medicare under federal law 1[,]1 are properly enrolled in Medicare 1[at the time of initial eligibility]1 with Medicare as the primary provider of their health care benefits coverage and with the School Employees’ Health Benefits Program as their secondary provider of their health care benefits coverage.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.