CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 2349

Chapter 538, Laws of 2009

61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session



DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL ADJUSTMENTS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/26/09

Passed by the House April 20, 2009
  Yeas 98   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 23, 2009
  Yeas 37   Nays 11


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate		 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2349 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved May 18, 2009, 3:47 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington		 
FILED
May 20, 2009







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 2349
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Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Representative Cody

  



     AN ACT Relating to disproportionate share hospital adjustments; and amending RCW 74.09.730.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 74.09.730 and 1991 sp.s. c 9 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
     In establishing Title XIX payments for inpatient hospital services:
     (1) To the extent funds are appropriated specifically for this purpose, and subject to any conditions placed on appropriations made for this purpose, the department of social and health services shall provide a disproportionate share hospital adjustment considering the following components:
     (a) A low-income care component based on a hospital's medicaid utilization rate, its low-income utilization rate, its provision of obstetric services, and other factors authorized by federal law;
     (b) A medical indigency care component based on a hospital's services to persons who are medically indigent; and
     (c) A state-only component, to be paid from available state funds to hospitals that do not qualify for federal payments under (b) of this subsection, based on a hospital's services to persons who are medically indigent;
     (2) The payment methodology for disproportionate share hospitals shall be specified by the department in regulation.


         Passed by the House April 20, 2009.
         Passed by the Senate April 23, 2009.
         Approved by the Governor May 18, 2009.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 20, 2009.