Effective January 1, 2021, this amendment updates the DSH program as well as inpatient hospital payments. Specifically, this (1) Updates the base year used to calculate the interim DSH payments and update the inflation rate used to trend the DSH base year cost; (2) expend 100% of its FFY 2021 allotment; (3) discontinue the normalization adjustment to the hospital specific DSH limits; (4) update the inflation rate used to trend the DSH base year cost to the end of the 2019 calendar year; (5) create separate DSH pools from the existing 2021 DSH allotment to be spread among rural hospitals. Additionally, South Carolina will (1) update the swing bed and administrative day rates based on the October 1, 2020 Nursing Facility Payment rate update; (2) update the long term per diem psychiatric hospital rates based on the FY2019 cost reporting period trended forward to the payment period; (3) provide for 100% retrospective cost settlement for all IP and OP services in rural hospitals.
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