2006 Senate Bill 1467 ↩

Senate Roll Call 737: Passed

To extend for another year the “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) tax on nursing homes and hospital long-term care units, and earmark $66.4 million of this revenue to Medicaid in 2007 and 2008. The MMQAA is a bed tax or fee on health care providers that is used to generate more federal Medicaid matching funds, resulting in a net gain for some but not all of the providers. The bill also reflects a 1 percent increase in the tax rate on hospitals, taking approximately $150 million more from them, and retaining a larger amount of this rather than redistributing to hospitals based on their Medicaid caseload.