5892-S AMS HEWI RAMS 006

SSB 5892 - S AMD 328

By Senators Hewitt, Hargrove, Sheldon, Schoesler, Hill

ADOPTED 04/24/2013

    On page 8, line 30, after "facility." Strike "The" and insert "Except in a county in which there is a single hospital with which the local correctional facilities may contract and with a state correctional facility housing more than one thousand, five hundred offenders, the"

    On page 8, line 35, after "Washington."  Insert "In a county in which there is a single hospital with which the local correctional facilities may contract and with a state correctional facility housing more than one thousand, five hundred offenders, the department of corrections shall pay the difference between the medicaid reimbursement and the amount agreed to by the correctional facility and the provider of hospital services."

EFFECT: Requires the Department of Corrections to pay the difference between the Medicaid reimbursement rate and the amount agreed to by the county or city jail and the hospital providing services to locally incarcerated offenders.  This will affect Grays Harbor, Mason, Snohomish, Franklin and Walla Walla counties.  

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