Year: 2007
Resolution Number: 96
Action Taken: No Action
Status:
Author(s): Timothy P. Madion, MD
Sponsor: Timothy P. Madion, MD
On behalf of: Michigan Section of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Committee: B (Legislation)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS initiate and support legislation requiring Medicaid to reimburse individual physicians and physician practices for providing translating services to their non-English-speaking patients who otherwise utilize Medicaid for insurance at a level that covers the cost of providing translating services in their respective regions and is paid whether or not the patients actually show-up for their appointments if the translator has already been hired.
RESOLVED: That MSMS initiate and support legislation requiring Medicaid to reimburse individual physicians and physician practices for providing translating services to their non-English-speaking patients who otherwise utilize Medicaid for insurance at a level that covers the cost of providing translating services in their respective regions and is paid whether or not the patients actually show-up for their appointments if the translator has already been hired.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Medicaid Reimbursement for Translators