Wisconsin Statutes 16.5285 – Health insurer fee savings
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 16.5285
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) In this section, “Affordable Care Act” has the meaning given in s. 601.80 (1).
(2) If the annual fee imposed under section 9010 of the Affordable Care Act is no longer applicable to insurers participating in the state‘s group health insurance program under s. 40.51 (6) or the Medical Assistance program under subch. IV of ch. 49 and if the state budget allocated an amount to expend on the annual insurer fee, the secretary shall calculate the expected state agency savings related to the avoidance of the fee.
(3) Based on the savings calculated under sub. (2), the secretary shall do one or more of the following:
(a) In the fiscal biennium in which the savings are calculated, reduce the estimated general purpose revenue and program revenue expenditures, excluding tuition and fee moneys from the University of Wisconsin System, for “Compensation Reserves” shown in the schedule under s. 20.005 (1) by an amount equal to the savings calculated under sub. (2) to the state’s group health insurance program; subject to sub. (4), transfer to the general fund the related available balances in program revenue appropriation accounts related to the savings under sub. (2) to the state’s group health insurance program in an amount equal to the calculated program revenue saved under sub. (2) to the state’s group health insurance program; and, if the secretary of health services finds that a reduction would not result in a deficit to the Medical Assistance program, reduce the general purpose revenue expenditure amounts for the Medical Assistance program under s. 20.435 (4) (b) by an amount that is no greater than the amount of the savings calculated under sub. (2) to the Medical Assistance program.
(b) In the fiscal biennium following the fiscal biennium in which the savings are calculated, adjust state agency employer contributions for state employee fringe benefit costs.
(4) If the secretary intends to transfer to the general fund the related available balances in program revenue appropriation accounts related to the savings under sub. (2) to the state’s group health insurance program, the secretary shall submit a request to the joint committee on finance stating the amounts the secretary calculates would be transferred from each program revenue appropriation account. If, within 14 days after the date of the secretary’s request, the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the department that the committee has scheduled a meeting to review the request, the transfers submitted are considered approved. If the cochairpersons notify the department within 14 days after the date of the secretary’s request that the committee has scheduled a meeting to review the request, a transfer may be made only upon approval of the committee.