Requires the state Health Care Authority to establish a separate recognition for medically necessary, individually configured, complex rehabilitation technology products and services for complex needs patients with the medical assistance program. The Authority must also direct managed care plans to adopt the regulations and policies established for complex rehabilitation technology products, subject to specific requirements set out in the act.   Official Text and Analysis.

Limits the definition of "complex rehabilitation technology" to wheelchairs and seating systems that are classified as durable medical equipment. The requirement that the Health Care Authority create new billing codes for complex rehabilitation technology is eliminated.

Recommends the removal of the Health Care Authority's authority to designate additional diagnoses or medical conditions that qualify a patient as a complex need patient. The Subcommittee also recommended clarifying that qualifying as a "complex needs patient" does not negate any requirement that an individual meet medical necessity requirements before receiving complex rehabilitative technology.

Eliminates the requirement that managed care plans adopt the Health Care Authority's rules and policies related to complex rehabilitation technology products. Eliminates the requirement that the Health Care Authority designate billing codes for complex rehabilitation technology and make changes as needed to protect client access to complex rehabilitation technology. Modifies the Health Care Authority's responsibility to establish standards for qualified complex rehabilitation technology suppliers by requiring that the standards address the purchase of complex rehabilitation technology from qualified suppliers. Eliminates references to specific diseases and conditions that define a person as a "complex needs patient." Establishes an effective date of January 1, 2014.

Directs the Health Care Authority to establish a separate recognition for individually configured, complex rehabilitation technology products and services for complex needs patients in the Medical Assistance program.

Removes the duplicative definition of Complex Rehabilitative Technology.

Directs the Health Care Authority to establish a separate recognition for individually configured, complex rehabilitation technology products and services for complex needs patients in the Medical Assistance program.

To concur in Senate amendment(s).