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Continues provisions for disproportionate share hospital payments to certain acute care hospitals that further PAs goal of enhanced access in economically distressed areas.
Continues an additional class of disproportionate payments for acute care hospitals ranked at least three standard deviations above the mean with respect to Medicaid inpatient days and above the 99th percentile of all acute care hospitals with respect to discharges.
Revision to eligibility criteria for providers who are eligible to receive the enhanced rate for providing care to developmentally disabled clients that have high medical/high personal care needs in Intermediate Care Facilities.