30:4D-8 Claim payment method.
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8. The determination of the method of providing payment of claims under this act shall be made by the State Medicaid Commission on recommendation of the commissioner which method may be:
a.
(1)By contract, except as prohibited by paragraph
(2)of this subsection, with insurance companies incorporated and licensed to do business in the State of New Jersey or with nonprofit health service corporations, dental service corporations, hospital service corporations or medical service corporations, incorporated in New Jersey, and authorized to do business pursuant to P.L.1985, c.236 (C.17:48E-1 et seq.), P.L.1968, c.305 (C.17:48C-1 et seq.), P.L.1938, c.366 (C.17:48-1 et seq.) or P.L.1940, c.74 (C.17:48A-1 et seq.), to underwrite, but not for profit, on an insured premium approach, that portion of the program covering all cash grant beneficiaries plus all other State certified recipients of medical assistance within the classes set forth in section 3i. of this act, with the exception of those persons who are confined in institutions for tuberculosis and mental care or who are required by medical necessity to be confined on a presumably permanent basis in other medical care institutions by reason of disease or injury, which contract executed pursuant to this subsection shall provide that for those persons included in the program but not covered on an underwritten basis, the same carrier selected under this subsection shall act as fiscal agent for the department, but not for profit, for such medical assistance benefits as may be available, and any carrier selected pursuant to the provisions of this act is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to undertake the performance of the requirements of such contract.
(2)The State Medicaid Commission shall not approve any contract, pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-11), with an insurance company or corporation as set forth in paragraph
(1)of this subsection that offers to pay all or part of the medical cost of injury, disease or disability of an applicant for or recipient of medical assistance payable under Medicaid using any contract that provides for a deductible which qualifies the contract as a high deductible health plan for which qualified medical expenses are paid using a health savings account established pursuant to section 223 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. s.223).
b.
(1)By contract, except as prohibited by paragraph
(2)of this subsection, with any corporation doing business in the State of New Jersey, including nonprofit organizations incorporated in New Jersey and authorized to do business pursuant to P.L.1985, c.236 (C.17:48E-1 et seq.), P.L.1968, c.305 (C.17:48C-1 et seq.), P.L.1938, c.366 (C. 17:48-1 et seq.) or P.L.1940, c.74 (C.17:48A-1 et seq.), to act as fiscal agent.
(2)The State Medicaid Commission shall not direct that payment of claims be made by the Department of Human Services, pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-11), with a corporation or nonprofit organization as set forth in paragraph
(1)of this subsection that offers to pay all or part of the medical cost of injury, disease or disability of an applicant for or recipient of medical assistance payable under Medicaid using any contract that provides for a deductible which qualifies the contract as a high deductible health plan for which qualified medical expenses are paid using a health savings account established pursuant to section 223 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. s.223).
c. By direct administration by the Department of Human Services.
L.1968,c.413,s.8; amended 1988, c.6, s.2; 2005, c.248, s.20.