republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1639.md

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Bill	Medical Assistance Services, Department of; payment for certain services to hospice patients.	Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to implement a process for direct payment of nursing facility or ICF/MR services for hospice patients receiving services in a nursing facility or ICF/MR, if such patient would be eligible for medical assistance for nursing facility or ICF/MR services had he not elected to receive hospice care. The bill provides that payments made to a nursing facility or ICF/MR shall be the full amount that would be paid to the nursing facility or ICF/MR, if the individual was not receiving hospice services, and shall not reflect any discount to such rates.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1639	Virginia HB 1639 (2019)	bill	Health	enacted	Christopher T. Head	3	15	6	2018-11-21	2019-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/086b4bfb-1755-4197-aa8c-44029357f895	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1639	c2dd8f13bc7cbedf4815f0115afc6cc10bed1b389d20d182099c767db118c9b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1639 (2019) — Medical Assistance Services, Department of; payment for certain services to hospice patients.

Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to implement a process for direct payment of nursing facility or ICF/MR services for hospice patients receiving services in a nursing facility or ICF/MR, if such patient would be eligible for medical assistance for nursing facility or ICF/MR services had he not elected to receive hospice care. The bill provides that payments made to a nursing facility or ICF/MR shall be the full amount that would be paid to the nursing facility or ICF/MR, if the individual was not receiving hospice services, and shall not reflect any discount to such rates.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1639ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100544D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance — 16–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-11-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100544D introduction
• 2018-11-21 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-11 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-19 Enrolled
• 2019-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-20 Signed by President
• 2019-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
• 2019-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 209 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/086b4bfb-1755-4197-aa8c-44029357f895. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).