191 Relating to: eliminating ambulatory surgical center assessment.

Date of enactment: April 2, 2012
2011 Senate Bill 297 Date of publication*: April 16, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 191

An Act to create 146.98 (6) of the statutes; relating to: refunds under ambulatory surgical center assessment.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 146.98 (6) of the statutes is created to read:

146.98 (6) (a) If the federal government does not provide federal financial participation under the federal Medicaid program for amounts collected under this section that are transferred under sub. (4) and used to make payments from the Medical Assistance trust fund, the department shall, from the fund from which the payment or expenditure was made, refund ambulatory surgical centers the amount for which the federal government does not provide federal financial participation.

(b) If the department makes a refund under par. (a) as result of failure to obtain federal financial participation under the federal Medicaid program for a payment from the Medical Assistance trust fund, the department shall recoup the part of the payment for which the federal government does not provide federal financial participation.

(c) Moneys recouped under par. (b) for payments made from the Medical Assistance trust fund shall be deposited in the Medical Assistance trust fund.