SB348: Makes revisions relating to laboratory testing. (BDR 40-123)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to health care; establishing a fee the State Public Health Laboratory is authorized to charge for certain examinations and tests for the discovery of certain diseases in infants; removing a requirement that the State Public Health Laboratory hold a public hearing under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to reimburse such examinations and tests separately from reimbursement for other labor and delivery services and newborn care; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to request the establishment of a certain rate of reimbursement for such examinations and tests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.