Other Mandatory Services includes: Home Health Services, Rural Health Clinic, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Indian Health, Radiology, Laboratory, and Well Child Care (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program). Detailed coverage information is in the Medicaid provider manuals.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $60,880,900 from all sources for Other Mandatory Services. This is a 14.1 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $15,922,600 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 12.5 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
Federally Qualified Health Centers - For specifically designated medical clinics that qualify as federally qualified health centers, Utah Medicaid must pay these clinics their full cost of providing Medicaid services. This is done through an annual adjustment at the end of each fiscal year and usually results in a payment that is higher than what Medicaid would normally pay. Utah has 11 federally qualified health centers.
The federal government pays 100% of the service costs for Indian Health Services. Utah has five Indian Health/Tribal facilities. Medicaid pays these facilities an all-inclusive rate for everything except for physician inpatient services, which use the fee-for-service reimbursement schedule.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.