State Rep. Jason Ortitay, R-Allegheny, announced his plan to propose requiring Medicaid users in Pennsylvania to contribute to a health savings account.

Ortitay cited Indiana's Healthy Indiana Plan as a model for his proposed reform.

His memo stated that a Medicaid recipient, based on their level of income compared to the federal poverty level, would be required to “contribute a small percentage of their income into the [health savings] account.” Ortitay said the state would ensure that an enrollee has $1,100 in the account by contributing the difference between the enrollee's contribution and $1,100. The state representative said his bill would allow an employer to contribute 50 percent of the enrollee's required HSA contribution. He also said that the state, above the required contribution, would deposit up to $500 “in order to incentivize the use of preventive care.”