Authorizes implementation of a transitional price-based per diem payment methodology for nursing facility services.

Inpatient Rate Update.

Removes the coverage exclusion for services provided in a tuberculosis institution.

Updates the introduction page to Attachment 4.19B.

Updates the fee schedule for TCM Services for Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance and to move the rate reference to the Attachment 4.19B Introduction page.

Adds the optional eligibility group provided for under the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.

Technical correction to reflect the current payment method for health services.

Updates Methods of Assuring Transportation, to reflect the current, long-standing, statewide use of non-emergency medical transportation brokers under a 1915(b) waiver, to arrange transportation and to reimburse for all but two types of transportation-related costs.

Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Program.

Creates a Professional Service Supplemental Payment program.