2007 Senate Bill 175

Revise Medicaid "bed tax" earmark

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 6, 2007

Introduced by Sen. Deborah Cherry (D-26)

To earmark $66.4 million of the “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) bed tax on health care providers for Medicaid expenditures in hospitals 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.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations