1394-S2 AMS FROC S4156.1
2SHB 1394 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-3941.1/19) 652
By Senator Frockt
ADOPTED 04/17/2019
On page 18, line 23, after "beds," insert "and for the one-time addition of up to sixty psychiatric beds devoted solely to ninety-day and one hundred eighty-day civil commitment patients if the hospital was awarded any grant by the department of commerce to increase behavioral health capacity in fiscal year 2019 and makes a commitment to maintain a payer mix of at least fifty percent medicare and medicaid based on a calculation using patient days for a period of five consecutive years after the beds are made available for use by patients,"
EFFECT: Amends the extension of certificate of need authority allowing a private psychiatric hospital to add up to 30 psychiatric beds until June 30, 2021, to allow a one-time addition of up to 60 psychiatric beds devoted solely to 90-day and 180-day involuntary patients if the hospital is awarded a grant by the Department of Commerce in FY 2019 and makes a commitment to maintain a payer mix of at least 50 percent Medicare and Medicaid based on a calculation using patient days for at least five consecutive years after the beds are made available.
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