WSR 15-01-192
[Filed December 24, 2014, 7:13 a.m.]
NOTICE
Title or Subject: Renumbered Medicaid State Plan Amendments (SPAs).
Effective Date: January 1, 2015.
Description: The agency previously published notification of intent to submit the following medicaid SPAs prior to the end of 2014. The agency now intends to submit these SPAs in 2015; therefore the SPA numbers have been changed as follows:
• | 14-0041 Inpatient Sole Community Hospital Payments – To increase payment rates for inpatient services by twenty-five percent effective January 1, 2015, for hospitals designated as a sole community hospital and meeting other criteria as designated by the legislature. Hospitals which participate in the state's certified public expenditure program will not [be] eligible for this increase. Filed as WSR 14-22-057. Will be submitted as SPA 15-0006. |
• | 14-0042 Outpatient Sole Community Hospital Payments – To increase payment rates for outpatient services by twenty-five percent effective January 1, 2015, for hospitals designated as a sole community hospital and meeting other criteria as designated by the legislature. Filed as WSR 14-22-057. Will be submitted as SPA 15-0007. |
• | 14-0032 FQHCs – To clarify the policy for FQHCs and RHCs to request a rate adjustment for a change in scope of services. The fiscal impact of this clarification is unable to be determined at this time. Filed as WSR 14-19-034. Will be submitted as SPA 15-0008. |
• | 14-0033 RHCs – To clarify the policy for FQHCs and RHCs to request a rate adjustment for a change in scope of services. The fiscal impact of this clarification is unable to be determined at this time. Filed as WSR 14-19-034. Will be submitted as SPA 15-0009. |
Information in these notices regarding fiscal or annual aggregate expenditure has not changed.
For additional information, contact Jean Bui, Office of Professional and Hospital Rates, 626 8th Avenue S.E., P.O. Box 45502, Olympia, WA 98504, phone (360) 725-1973, e-mail jean.bui@hca.wa.gov.