2007 House Bill 4185

Senate Roll Call 355: Passed

To extend until 2011 the 2007 sunset on “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) bed tax on health care providers, and $66.4 million of the fee revenue to the state general fund to cover Medicaid expenditures in hospitals in Fiscal Year 2006-07 and $81.4 million in FY 2007-08. This is up from $46.4 million. 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. This bill relates to how much of the money is take by the state and how much goes to the providers.

37 Yeas / 1 Nay
Republican (20 Yeas / 1 Nay)
Democrat (17 Yeas / 0 Nays)