Bills affecting Medicaid / public insurance in Nebraska (2026 session)

State intent regarding appropriations for medicaid rates for mental health providers

State intent regarding appropriations for medicaid assisted-living facilities

Require the Department of Health and Human Services to file a medicaid waiver amendment for memory care rates

Provide insurance and medicaid coverage for certain contraceptives

Adopt the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act and provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing

State intent to appropriate for medicaid nursing facility rates

Prohibit disadvantaging insurance and Medicaid coverage for nonopioid drugs

Provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing

Provide for assistant funeral directors, change scope of practice and regulatory provisions regarding funeral directing and embalming, hearing instrument specialists, and audiologists, change membership provisions for the Board of Pharmacy, change provisions regarding delegated dispensing permits and prescription refills, provide medicaid coverage for psychology services, and establish the Rural Health Opportunity Program

Change provisions regarding program integrity, ground emergency medical transport, and mental health and substance use disorder services under the Medical Assistance Act and provide duties for the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care

Provide for use of the Medicaid Managed Care Excess Profit Fund to reimburse designated area agencies on aging and state intent regarding appropriations

Require certain minimum uninsured and underinsured insurance coverage for certain motor carriers

Require school districts to develop a cardiac emergency response plan under the School Safety and Security Reporting System Act and provide for grants for such plans from the Medicaid Managed Care Excess Profit Fund

Change and eliminate provisions relating to installment sales and installment loans and the Nebraska Money Transmitters Act, rename the Nebraska Installment Sales Act, transfer provisions of and eliminate the Nebraska Installment Loan Act, and change provisions of the Medicaid Access and Quality Act

Adopt the Medicaid Access and Quality Act and change provisions relating to taxes on health maintenance organizations, prepaid limited health service organizations, and insurance companies

Change provisions relating to medicaid estate recovery

Provide requirements for the Department of Health and Human Services relating to medicaid eligibility redeterminations and community engagement

Extend the prohibition of the addition of long-term care services and supports to the medicaid managed care program

Change provisions relating to special needs trusts, fingerprints under the Uniform Credentialing Act, child care grants, the Title IV-D Division Customer Service Unit, eligibility for young adults in the bridge to independence program, licensed and self-funded insurers under the Medical Assistance Act, medicaid nursing facility rates, assistance to aged, blind, or disabled persons, and the state Commodity Supplemental Food program; provide for a money follows the person program for medicaid benefits, a youth afterschool eligibility letter for child care employment, use of wholesale drug distributor license fees for the prescription drug monitoring program, and maintenance of epinephrine by certain schools; change provisions of and rename the Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Support Act , the Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council, the State Advisory Committee on Mental Health, the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Director of Developmental Disabilities; and eliminate provisions relating to divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care Advisory Committee on Aging, the Maternal and Child Health and Public Health Work Fund, and an obsolete Nurse Licensure Compact

Provide for managed care organizations to pay the deductible, cost sharing, or similar charges on behalf of medicaid enrollees