CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

HOUSE BILL 1162

 

 

Chapter 2, Laws of 2001

 

 

57th Legislature

2001 2nd Special Session

 

 

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE‑‑SMALL, RURAL HOSPITALS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  9/20/01

 

Passed by the House June 4, 2001

  Yeas 86   Nays 0

 

 

FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate June 8, 2001

  Yeas 40   Nays 0

 

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE

 

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co‑Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1162 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

Chief Clerk

 

 

 

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

 

Approved June 15, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

 

 

FILED

 

June 15, 2001 ‑ 11:05 a.m.

 

 

 

 

Secretary of State

State of Washington

 


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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 Representatives McMorris, Cody, Alexander, Schual‑Berke, Mastin, Cox, Mulliken, Sump, G. Chandler, Lisk, B. Chandler, Hatfield, Schoesler, Grant, Armstrong, Kessler, Doumit, DeBolt, Delvin, Dickerson, Kenney, Bush, Conway, Edmonds, Pflug and Haigh

 

Read first time 01/18/2001.  Referred to Committee on Health Care.

Providing medical assistance reimbursements for small, rural hospitals.    


    AN ACT Relating to providing state medical assistance reimbursements for small, rural hospitals that meet the criteria of a critical access hospital; adding new sections to chapter 74.09 RCW; and creating new sections.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that promoting a financially viable health care system in all parts of the state is a paramount interest.  The health care financing administration has recognized the crucial role that hospitals play in providing care in rural areas by creating the critical access hospital program to allow small, rural hospitals that qualify to receive reasonable cost-based reimbursement for medicare services.  The legislature further finds that creating a similar reimbursement system for the state's medical assistance programs in small, rural hospitals that qualify will help assure the long-term financial viability of the rural health system in those communities.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 74.09 RCW to read as follows:

    Payments for recipients eligible for medical assistance programs under this chapter for services provided by hospitals, regardless of the beneficiary's managed care enrollment status, shall be made based on allowable costs incurred during the year, when services are provided by a rural hospital certified by the health care financing administration as a critical access hospital.  Any additional payments made by the medical assistance administration for the healthy options program shall be no more than the additional amounts per service paid under this section for other medical assistance programs.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 74.09 RCW to read as follows:

    The department shall implement the program created in section 2 of this act within sixty days of the effective date of this act regardless of the beneficiary's managed care status.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.  If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not provided by June 30, 2001, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void.


    Passed the House June 4, 2001.

    Passed the Senate June 8, 2001.

Approved by the Governor June 15, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State June 15, 2001.