Outpatient hospital rates and methodologies.

Updatess the effective dates of the fee schedules for alcohol and drug treatment and detoxification services.

Eliminates the requirements that the dependent child must be deprived of parental support or care as a requirement of eligiblity for the Parent/Caretaker Relative group; to use 58% of the FPL as the income limit for this group rather then the fixed dollar amounts previously used.

Proposed to convert the July 16th, 1996, AFDC payment standard amount to a percentage of the federal poverty level (23%) for children in the reasonable classification group for qualified youth age 19 to 21 who entered into a subsidized guardianship or adoption at age 16 or older.

Removing TCM for Homeless Individuals (obsolete language).

This amendment will enable the District's Medicaid Program to clarify coverage limitations for providers delivering other laboratory and x-ray services.

Reimbursement update for TCM for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.

This State Plan Amendment creates a supplemental payment for Denver Health and Hospital Authority (DHHA) for ground emergency medical transportation provided to Medicaid clients by DHHAs ambulance service.

This SPA allows emergency medical services provided in the hospital emergency room to be certified and signed by the attending licensed physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant at the time the service is rendered and documented in the medical record.

This SPA proposed to establish a pharmacy product reimbursement category related to physician administered injectable drugs.