SB 5581 - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

Requires the department of social and health services to establish a skilled nursing facility safety net assessment on certain Washington skilled nursing facilities, that will be used solely to augment funding from all other sources and thereby obtain additional funds to restore recent reductions and to support additional payments to skilled nursing facilities for medicaid services.

Establishes the skilled nursing facility safety net trust fund to receive the assessments for securing federal matching funds under federally prescribed programs available through the state medicaid plan.