CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1534
Chapter 116, Laws of 2019
66TH LEGISLATURE
2019 REGULAR SESSION
MEDICAID PSYCHIATRIC PER DIEM PAYMENTS--CERTAIN HOSPITALS
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 24, 2019
Passed by the House March 1, 2019 Yeas 94 Nays 0 FRANK CHOPP
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 11, 2019 Yeas 45 Nays 0 CYRUS HABIB
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1534 as passed by House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved April 24, 2019 1:44 PM | FILED April 25, 2019 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 1534
Passed Legislature - 2019 Regular Session
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2019 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Dufault, Cody, Chandler, Mosbrucker, Chapman, Corry, Leavitt, and Steele
Read first time 01/23/19.Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to psychiatric payments under medical assistance programs for certain rural hospitals that are not designated as critical access hospitals, do not participate in the certified public expenditure program, have less than fifty acute care beds, and have combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent of total days; creating a new section; providing an expiration date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) Psychiatric per diem payments for recipients eligible for medical assistance programs under chapter 74.09 RCW for services provided by a hospital, regardless of the beneficiary's managed care enrollment status, must be increased on or after the effective date of this section, sufficiently to ensure that services are provided. Increased psychiatric per diem payments under this section are effective from the effective date of this section through June 30, 2019, and apply only when services are provided by a hospital that: (a) Is designated as a rural hospital by the department of health;
(b) Has less than fifty staffed acute care beds, as reported in the hospital's 2017 department of health year-end report;
(c) Is not currently designated as a critical access hospital, and does not meet current federal eligibility requirements for designation as a critical access hospital;
(d) Is not currently participating in the certified public expenditure full cost reimbursement program; and
(e) Has combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent of total days, as reported in the hospital's 2017 cost report.
(2) This section expires June 30, 2019.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.
Passed by the House March 1, 2019.
Passed by the Senate April 11, 2019.
Approved by the Governor April 24, 2019.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 25, 2019.
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