This SPA extended the acute hospital rate year 2012 outpatient payment methodology for an additional three months, and implemented new payment methodologies for critical access hospitals and newly-enrolled Shriners Hospitals.

This amendment proposes updates to the DSH pool dollar amount available to hospitals with an approved agreement between themselves and a university with both a college of allopathic medicine and a college of osteopathic medicine.

This amendment proposes updates the Indigent Care Agreement DSH pool dollar amount available to hospitals with an approved agreement between themselves and a partner health care related entity in the area.

This amendment proposes updates the Outpatient Uncompensated Care DSH pool dollar amount available to hospitals who meet the minimum requirements for Medicaid DSH payment as specified in Section H.

This amendment proposes to revise payment rates and coverage for 3408 drugs and proposes to allow prescribers to indicate the need to dispense a brand name drug using an electronic alternative to hand writing.

This SPA allows the Division of Medicaid to implement an alternative payment methodology for Federally Qualified Health Clinics (FQHCs).

This SPA allows the Division of Medicaid to revise the payment computation of the Mississippi Medicaid calculated fee for the observation code G0378 using the Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) 8009 instead of the average of APC 8002 and APD 8003 effective July 1, 2014.

This State plan amendment raises the income eligibility for Health Coverage for Workers with Disabilities (HCWD) to an unlimited amount of total countable income from the current 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) ceiling.

Modifies the reimbursement methodology for psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) services by providing for the direct reimbursement of certain ancillary services.

This state plan amendment corrects income disregards used for Section 1931 Medicaid eligibility.