Section 363-C. Medicaid management  


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  • 1. The commissioner of the department
      periodically shall convene, but not less than quarterly and no more than
      monthly, meetings of  the  directors  and  commissioners  of  all  state
      agencies  and  departments receiving general fund appropriations for the
      purpose of state matching funds for medicaid  services  and  appropriate
      representation  of  local departments of social services. The purpose of
      these meetings is to identify, without limitation:
        (a) methods to contain the growth of medicaid spending;
        (b) methods to improve the quality of and recipient satisfaction  with
      medicaid state agency and department services;
        (c)  opportunities  for  consolidation  and  methods  to  improve  the
      efficiency and effectiveness of existing service delivery;
        (d) opportunities for education and prevention; and
        (e) the  collective  priority  of  critical  needs  for  the  medicaid
      population.
        2. The department annually shall compile the results of these meetings
      and  provide  them  to  the  governor, the senate finance committee, the
      assembly ways and means committee,  the  senate  health  committee,  the
      assembly  health  committee,  the  senate  social services, children and
      families committee, and the assembly social services committee.
        3. By December thirty-first of each year, the department shall  submit
      to  the  governor,  the  senate finance committee, the assembly ways and
      means committee,  the  senate  health  committee,  the  assembly  health
      committee,  the senate social services, children and families committee,
      and the assembly social services committee medicaid expenditures made to
      other state agencies in the preceding  state  fiscal  year.  The  report
      shall include, but is not limited to:
        (a) amounts paid to each agency according to category of service; and
        (b)  rates  paid  to  each state agency and the associated methodology
      used in developing those rates.