Chapter 68, PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
369 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2101 Act, how cited.
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Sections 68-2101 to 68-2109 shall be known and may be cited as the Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2102 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Act: (1) Assessment means a quality assurance and access assessment imposed on hospitals pursuant to section 68-2103; (2) Department means the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care of the Department of Health …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2103 Hospital inpatient and outpatient services; assessments and directed-payment programs; establish; department; powers and duties.
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(1) The department shall amend the medicaid state plan or file other federal authorizing documents to establish assessments and directed-payment programs for hospital inpatient and outpatient services. (2) Upon approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2104 Assessments; collection and remittance.
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(1) Except as provided in section 68-2106, the department shall collect assessments from hospitals and remit the assessments to the State Treasurer for credit to the Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Fund. It is the intent of the Legislature that no proceeds from t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2105 Assessment; statewide aggregate assessment; amounts, how determined; payment; procedure.
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(1) Each hospital shall pay an assessment based on net patient revenue for the purpose of improving the quality of, and access to, hospital care in the state. The statewide aggregate assessment shall equal (a) the state share of the payments authorized by the federal Centers for …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2106 Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Fund; created; use; investment; department; duties; medicaid managed care organizations; hospitals; prohibited acts.
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(1) The Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Fund is created. Interest earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2107 Hospital inpatient and outpatient services; medicaid rates; legislative intent.
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It is the intent of the Legislature that medicaid rates paid for hospital inpatient and outpatient services and the General Fund appropriations for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in the medical assistance program shall not be reduced to an amount below the rates paid …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2108 Assessments and directed-payment programs; treatment; retroactive.
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Assessments and directed-payment programs shall be treated as a separate component in developing rates paid to hospitals and shall not be included with existing rate components. The assessments and directed-payment programs shall be retroactive to July 1, 2024, or the effective d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2109 Assessments; discontinue, when; effect.
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(1) The department shall discontinue the collection of assessments when federal matching funds are unavailable. In such case, the department shall terminate the collection of the assessments beginning on the date such federal matching funds become unavailable. (2) If collection o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2201 Act, how cited.
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Sections 68-2201 to 68-2208 shall be known and may be cited as the Medicaid Access and Quality Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2202 Legislative findings and declarations.
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The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) Wide discrepancies between medicaid reimbursement rates and rates of other payers have created challenges to health care access for Nebraska residents covered by medicaid; (2) Approximately one-third of pregnant women, newborns, and ch…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2203 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Medicaid Access and Quality Act: (1) Nonhospital provider means a provider of physical health services that does not hold a license as a hospital under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act; (2) Physical health services means services billed under the medicai…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2204 Tax; amount; Director of Insurance; establish schedule; Department of Health and Human Services; federal financial participation; authorization.
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(1) No later than January 1, 2026, the Director of Insurance shall establish a schedule for the collection of a tax of not to exceed six percent of the gross amount of non-medicare direct writing premiums written under a health maintenance organization certificate of authority pu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2205 Medicaid Access and Quality Fund; created; investment.
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The Medicaid Access and Quality Fund is created. Interest earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2206 Medicaid Access and Quality Fund; use.
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(1) The Department of Health and Human Services shall use the Medicaid Access and Quality Fund for the following purposes: (a) Beginning January 1, 2026, forty million dollars annually shall be used to obtain federal financial participation for the purpose of enhancing rates paid…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2207 Funding; fee schedule; legislative intent.
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It is the intent of the Legislature that the medicaid practitioner fee schedule rates and the General Fund appropriations for rates established in the fee schedule shall not be reduced in amounts lower than the rates published as of July 1, 2024.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2208 Rules and regulations.
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The Department of Health and Human Services may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the Medicaid Access and Quality Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2301 Act, how cited.
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Sections 68-2301 to 68-2309 shall be known and may be cited as the Family Home Visitation Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2302 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Family Home Visitation Act: (1) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services; and (2) Home visitation program means a voluntary program carried out in relevant settings, primarily in the homes of families with one or more children, five years o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2303 Home visitation program; eligibility for funding; provide visits; required accomplishments.
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(1) The department shall only fund a home visitation program that includes periodic home visits to improve the health, well-being, and self-sufficiency of parents and their children. (2) A home visitation program funded by the State of Nebraska shall provide visits by nurses, soc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2304 Home visitation program; evidence-based; requirements for funding.
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The department shall only fund an evidence-based home visitation program. An evidence-based home visitation program: (1) Is founded on a clear, consistent program model; (2) Is associated with, or certified by, a national organization, an institution of higher education, or a nat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2305 Home visitation program funds; use.
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Home visitation program funds may be used for workforce purposes and to assist the programs and individuals in receiving and maintaining certification for home visitation providers.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2307 Home visitation program services; decline.
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Families may decline home visitation program services at any time.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2308 Rules and regulations.
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The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Family Home Visitation Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2309 Report; department, duties.
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(1) No later than February 15, 2026, and through February 15, 2028, the department shall submit an electronic report to the Clerk of the Legislature. Such report shall be made available on the department's website and shall include the following information, if available: (a) The…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-301 State Assistance Fund; created; investment.
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A fund to be known as the State Assistance Fund is created and established in the treasury of the State of Nebraska. Such fund shall consist of all money appropriated to it by the Legislature, allocated by the government of the United States, or donated or allocated from other so…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-309 Department of Health and Human Services; sole state agency for administration of welfare programs.
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The Department of Health and Human Services shall be the sole agency of the State of Nebraska to administer the State Assistance Fund for assistance to the aged, blind, or disabled, aid to dependent children, medical assistance, medically handicapped children's services, child we…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-312 Department of Health and Human Services; rules and regulations; records and other communications; use by other agency or department.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has the power to establish and enforce reasonable rules and regulations governing the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, files, and communications of the state. The use of such records, papers, files, and communicati…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-313 Records and information; use and disclosure; limitations.
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It shall be unlawful, except as permitted by section 68-313.01 and except for purposes directly connected with the administration of general assistance, medically handicapped children's services, medical assistance, assistance to the aged, blind, or disabled, or aid to dependent …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-313.01 Records and information; access by the Legislature and state and county officials; open to public; limitation.
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Members of the Nebraska Legislature and all state and county officials of this state shall have free access at all times to all records and information in connection with the aid and assistance referred to in section 68-313. The public shall have free access to all information co…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-314 Violations; penalty.
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Any person who knowingly violates the provisions of section 68-313 shall be deemed guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-328 Assistance; application; furnish with reasonable promptness.
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All individuals desiring to make an application for any type of public assistance shall have an opportunity to do so, and public assistance shall be furnished with reasonable promptness to all eligible individuals.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-601 Social security; policy.
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(1) In order to extend to the employees of the state and its political subdivisions and to the dependents and survivors of such employees the basic protection accorded to others by the old age and survivors insurance system embodied in the Social Security Act, it is hereby declar…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-602 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 68-601 to 68-631, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Wages shall mean all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that wages shall not include that part of such remunerat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-603 Agreement with federal government; state agency; approval of Governor.
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The state agency, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized to enter, on behalf of the State of Nebraska, into an agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, consistent with the terms and provisions of sections 68-601 to 68-631, for the purpose of ext…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-604 Agreement with federal government; instrumentality jointly created with other state.
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Any instrumentality jointly created by this state and any other state or states is hereby authorized, upon the granting of like authority by such other state or states, (1) to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services whereby the benefits of the fede…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-605 Contributions by state employees; amount.
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Every employee of the state whose services are covered by an agreement entered into under sections 68-603 and 68-604 shall be required to pay for the period of such coverage, contributions, with respect to wages, as defined in section 68-602, equal to the amount of tax which woul…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-606 Contribution by state employees; collection.
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The contribution imposed by section 68-605 shall be collected by deducting the amount of the contribution from wages as and when paid, but failure to make such deduction shall not relieve the employee from liability for such contribution.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-607 Contribution by state employees; adjustments.
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If more or less than the correct amount of the contribution imposed by section 68-605 is paid or deducted with respect to any remuneration, proper adjustments, or refund if adjustment is impracticable, shall be made, without interest, in such manner and at such times as the state…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-608 Coverage by political subdivisions; plan; modification; approval by state agency.
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Unless otherwise provided for by sections 68-601 to 68-631, each political subdivision of the state is hereby authorized to submit for approval by the state agency a plan for extending the benefits of Title II of the Social Security Act, in conformity with applicable provisions o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-609 Coverage by political subdivisions; refusal, amendment, or termination of plan; notice; hearing.
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The state agency shall not finally refuse to approve a plan submitted by a political subdivision under section 68-608, nor any proposed amendment to such plan, and shall not terminate an approved plan, without reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the political subdivi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-610 Coverage by political subdivisions; amount; payment.
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(1) Each political subdivision as to which a plan has been approved under sections 68-608 to 68-611 or prepared under section 68-625 shall be required to pay for the period of such coverage, contributions in the amounts and at the rates specified in the applicable agreement enter…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-611 Coverage by political subdivisions; delinquent payments; penalty; collection.
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Delinquent payments due under subsection (1) of section 68-610, plus one-half the amount of the delinquent payment, may be recovered by action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the political subdivision liable therefor or may, at the request of the state agency, be ded…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-620 Cities and villages; special levy; addition to levy limitations; contribution to state agency.
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Notwithstanding any tax levy limitations contained in any other law or city home rule charter, when any city or village of this state elects to accept the provisions of sections 68-601 to 68-631 relating to old age and survivors insurance and enters into a written agreement with …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-621 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 68-621 to 68-630: (1) Referendum group means the employees of the state, a single political subdivision of this state, or any instrumentality jointly created by this state and any other state or states, the employees of which are or may be members of a re…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-622 Referendum; persons eligible to vote; Governor; powers.
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(1) All employees of the State of Nebraska or any political subdivision thereof or any instrumentality jointly created by this state and any other state or states who have heretofore been excluded from receiving or qualifying for benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-623 Referendum; how conducted.
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Such referendum shall comply with the conditions set out in section 218(d)(3) of the Social Security Act, and: (1) It shall be by secret written ballot upon the question of whether service in positions covered by such retirement system should be excluded from or included under th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-624 Referendum; completion; certification; notice; contents.
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(1) Upon completion of such referendum, the agency or individual designated by the Governor to supervise such referendum shall certify the result thereof to the Governor and shall further provide the Governor with such proof as the Governor may require that the conduct of the ref…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-625 Referendum; state agency; prepare plan; modification of state agreement.
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If, upon referendum, a majority of the eligible employees included in a referendum group which is defined in section 68-621 vote in favor of including service in positions included in such group under the state agreement, the state agency shall, within ninety days after the maili…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-626 Referendum; state agency; forms; make available; aid political subdivisions.
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The state agency shall prepare and make available for the use of the state, its political subdivisions, and instrumentalities of the state and any other state or states, forms of notices, ballots, and any other forms necessary for the conduct of the referendum provided for in sec…