Deposits in Maintenance of Coverage Trust Fund — Expenditures — Quarterly Reports. [Effective Until July 1, 2020.]

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Welfare
4. Programs and Services for Poor Persons
5. Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2019 [Effective Until July 1, 2020.]
6. Deposits in Maintenance of Coverage Trust Fund — Expenditures — Quarterly Reports. [Effective Until July 1, 2020.]

1. The funds generated as a result of this part must be deposited in the maintenance of coverage trust fund created by § 71-5-160, the existence of which is continued as provided in subsection (b). The fund must not be used to replace any monies otherwise appropriated to the TennCare program by the general assembly or to replace any monies appropriated outside of the TennCare program.
2. The maintenance of coverage trust fund must continue without interruption and must be operated in accordance with § 71-5-160 and this section.
3. The maintenance of coverage trust fund consists of:
   1. The balance of the trust fund remaining as of June 30, 2019;
   2. All annual coverage assessments received by the bureau;
   3. Investment earnings credited to the assets of the maintenance of coverage trust fund; and
   4. Penalties paid by covered hospitals for late payment of assessment installments imposed by this part or any prior statute authorizing an annual coverage assessment.
4. Monies credited or deposited to the maintenance of coverage trust fund, together with all federal matching funds, must be available to and used by the bureau only for expenditures in the TennCare program and include the following purposes:
   1. Expenditure for benefits and services under the TennCare program, including those that would have been subject to reduction or elimination from TennCare funding for FY 2019-2020, except for the availability of one-time funding for that year only, as follows:
      1. Replacement of across-the-board reductions in covered and excluded hospital and professional reimbursement rates described in the governor's recommended budgets since FY 2011 except for any reductions that were included on a list for a given year but then funded in a subsequent year with recurring state dollars;
      2. Maintenance of virtual DSH fund payments and uncompensated care fund for charity care payments in accordance with, and as those payments are defined in, the TennCare 1115 demonstration waiver from CMS, to the maximum amount of the virtual DSH fund and uncompensated care fund for charity care allowed by CMS under the TennCare waiver;
      3. Maintenance of payments for graduate medical education of at least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000);
      4. Maintenance of reimbursement for medicare part A crossover claims at the lesser of one hundred percent (100%) of medicare allowable or the billed amount;
      5. Avoidance of any coverage limitations relative to the number of hospital inpatient days per year or the annual cost of hospital services for a TennCare enrollee;
      6. Avoidance of any coverage limitations relative to the number of nonemergency outpatient visits per year for a TennCare enrollee;
      7. Avoidance of any coverage limitations relative to the number of physician office visits per year for a TennCare enrollee;
      8. Avoidance of coverage limitations relative to the number of laboratory and diagnostic imaging encounters per year for a TennCare enrollee;
      9. Maintenance of coverage for occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy services;
      10. In the total amount of five hundred eighty-one thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars ($581,285) to maintain reimbursement at the same emergency care rate as in FY 2018-2019 for nonemergent care to children twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) months of age;
      11. In the total amount of two million seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($2,077,500) to the bureau to offset the elimination of the provision in the TennCare managed care contractor risk agreements for hospitals as follows:

          CRA 2.12.9.60-Specify in applicable provider agreements that all providers who participate in the federal 340B program give TennCare MCOs the benefit of 340B pricing;

      12. In the total amount of two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) to offset a portion of the hospital cost of providing admissions, discharge, and transfer (ADT) messages to the TennCare bureau to support the TennCare Patient Centered Medical Home initiative;
      13. In the total amount of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to provide funding for stipends for physicians and other healthcare providers who commit to work in designated medically underserved areas in this state; and
      14. In the amount of three million dollars ($3,000,000) to offset the unreimbursed cost of charity care for critical access hospitals to be funded from funds remaining in the trust fund as of June 30, 2019.
   2. Directed payments to hospitals to reduce unreimbursed costs incurred by covered hospitals in providing services to TennCare patients, as approved by CMS and as directed in subdivision (d)(3)(B);
   3. 1. If CMS does not approve directed payments to hospitals to offset unreimbursed costs incurred in serving TennCare patients, but instead approves hospital supplemental pools in the TennCare waiver for that purpose, then payments required by this subdivision (d)(3) must be made from the allocated pools to covered hospitals to offset losses incurred in providing services to TennCare enrollees as set forth in this subdivision (d)(3) as first priority before any other supplemental payments authorized in the TennCare waiver are distributed;
      2. Directed payments to hospitals must be based on the amounts paid to covered hospitals during each quarter of FY 2019-2020. Each covered hospital is entitled to payments for FY 2019-2020 of a portion of its unreimbursed TennCare costs of providing services to TennCare enrollees. As used in this subdivision (d)(3)(B), “unreimbursed TennCare costs” means the excess of TennCare costs over TennCare net revenue. TennCare charges and net revenue are calculated using data from Schedule E, items (A)(1)(e) and (A)(1)(f) from the hospital's 2017 joint annual report (JAR) filed with the department of health. As used in this subdivision (d)(3)(B), “TennCare costs” means the quotient of a facility's cost-to-charge ratio, calculated as B(3) (total expenses) divided by A(3)(e) (total gross patient charges) from Schedule E of the 2017 JAR, times TennCare charges. The amount of the payment to covered hospitals must be no less than forty-four and nine hundredths percent (44.09%) of unreimbursed TennCare costs for all hospitals licensed by the state that reported TennCare charges and revenue and total expenses on the 2017 joint annual report (JAR), excluding state-owned hospitals;
      3. The payments required by this subdivision (d)(3) must be made in four (4) equal installments. The bureau shall provide to the Tennessee Hospital Association a schedule showing the payments to each hospital at least seven (7) days in advance of the payments; and
      4. The payments required by this subdivision (d)(3) may be made by the bureau directly or by the TennCare managed care organizations with the direction to make payments to hospitals as required by this subsection (d). The payments to a hospital pursuant to this subdivision (d)(3) are not part of the reimbursement to which a hospital is entitled under its contract with a TennCare managed care organization;
   4. Refunds to covered hospitals based on the payment of annual coverage assessments or penalties to the bureau through error, mistake, or a determination that the annual coverage assessment was invalidly imposed; and
   5. Payments authorized under rules promulgated by the bureau pursuant to § 71-5-2004(j)(2).
5. The bureau shall modify the contracts with TennCare managed care organizations and otherwise take action necessary to assure the use and application of the assets of the maintenance of coverage trust fund, as described in subsection (d).
6. The bureau shall submit requests to CMS to modify the medicaid state plan, the contractor risk agreements, or the TennCare II Section 1115 demonstration project, as necessary, to implement the requirements of this part.
7. At quarterly intervals beginning September 1, 2019, the bureau shall submit a report to the finance, ways and means and the health and welfare committees of the senate, the finance, ways and means and the health committee of the house of representatives, and the committee of the house of representatives having oversight over TennCare, which report must include:
   1. The status, if applicable, of the determination and approval by CMS set forth in § 71-5-2003(b) of the annual coverage assessment;
   2. The balance of funds in the maintenance of coverage trust fund; and
   3. The extent to which the maintenance of coverage trust fund has been used to carry out this part.
8. No part of the maintenance of coverage trust fund must be diverted to the general fund or used for any purpose other than as set forth in this part.

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