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
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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
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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
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Approved
June 15, 2001
GARY
LOCKE
Governor of the State of
Washington
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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
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.