This amendment decreases payment rates to all hospitals by one percent, reduces a base year adjustment, eliminates payment for increased costs associated with a list of hospital acquired conditions, limits payments for certain child deliveries and adjust payment rates for an increase in costs for hearing tests.

This amendment proposes to re-implement disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments to institutes for mental disease (IMD) operated by the State.

This this amendment makes grammatical revisions to reimbursement methodology for special facilities for ventilator-dependent patients and facilities with specially placed patients transferred from an acute care hospital setting to an approved NF on a prior authorized basis.

6 month home maintenance disregard.

Revised deemed newborn preprint pages.

This amendment revises the methodology for making disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments from the Small Hospitals and Outpatient Uncompensated Care DSH pools.

This amendment revises the methodology for making supplemental payments to nursing facilities under the Quality Assurance Assessment Program (QAAP).

This amendment revises the aggregate amount allocated for payments from the Indigent Care Agreement disproportionate share hospital (DSH) pool and updates the individual hospital payment amounts distributed from this pool.

This SPA cap the provider specific enrollment of teaching physicians eligible to receive reimbursement under supplemental teaching payment program.

Home Health Rate Increase.