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HOUSE BILL 1162
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Passed Legislature ‑
2001 2nd Special Session
State of Washington 57th
Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/18/2001. Referred to Committee on Health Care. Providing medical assistance reimbursements for small,
rural hospitals.
_1 AN
ACT Relating to providing state medical assistance
_2 reimbursements
for small, rural hospitals that meet the criteria
_3 of a
critical access hospital; adding new sections to chapter
_4 74.09
RCW; and creating new sections.
_5 BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
_6 NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds
that promoting a
_7 financially
viable health care system in all parts of the state is
_8 a
paramount interest. The health care financing administration has
_9 recognized
the crucial role that hospitals play in providing care
10 in
rural areas by creating the critical access hospital program to
11 allow
small, rural hospitals that qualify to receive reasonable
12 cost-based
reimbursement for medicare services. The legislature
13 further
finds that creating a similar reimbursement system for the
14 state's
medical assistance programs in small, rural hospitals that
15 qualify
will help assure the long-term financial viability of the
16 rural
health system in those communities.
17
p.
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_1 NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added
to chapter 74.09
_2 RCW to
read as follows:
_3 Payments
for recipients eligible for medical assistance
_4 programs
under this chapter for services provided by hospitals,
_5 regardless
of the beneficiary's managed care enrollment status,
_6 shall
be made based on allowable costs incurred during the year,
_7 when
services are provided by a rural hospital certified by the
_8 health
care financing administration as a critical access
_9 hospital.
Any additional payments made by the medical assistance
10 administration
for the healthy options program shall be no more
11 than
the additional amounts per service paid under this section
12 for
other medical assistance programs.
13 NEW
SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added
to chapter 74.09
14 RCW to
read as follows:
15 The
department shall implement the program created in section 2
16 of
this act within sixty days of the effective date of this act
17 regardless
of the beneficiary's managed care status.
18 NEW
SECTION. Sec. 4. If specific funding
for the purposes of
19 this
act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not
20 provided
by June 30, 2001, in the omnibus appropriations act, this
21 act is
null and void.
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