2956-S2.E AMS WM DESC 090

Offered by Senator Keiser

E2SHB 2956 - S AMD TO S COMM AMD (S-5552.1/10) 440

By Senators Keiser and Parlette

WITHDRAWN 3/19/2010

    On page 20, strike everything from line 20 through 22, and insert the following:

"(d) If other funding available for the medicaid program is not sufficient to maintain medicaid inpatient and outpatient reimbursement rates for hospitals and small rural disproportionate share payments at one hundred percent of the levels in effect on July 1, 2009; or"

    On page 33, on line 4, after "structure" insert the following:

"no higher than the rate structure in effect as of July 1, 2009"

EFFECT:

           Technical correction to conflicting sectional references in the striking amendment to E2SHB 2956 as passed Senate Ways and Means committee. Restores original language from E2SHB 2956.

           Clarifies the intent of language that upon expiration of this act in July 2013, hospital rates will either return to the rates in effect July 1, 2009 as if the four percent rate reductions taken last session had not occurred, or to a rate structure specified in the 2013-15 budget. 

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