To continue the trend factor to an amount no greater then zero for nursing facility for services provided on and after April 23, 2013 through March 31, 2017.

To increase the supplemental payment amount for Martin Luther King Jr. Los Angeles Healthcare Corporation.

To add podiatrist services under the other licensed practitioner benefit.

Limitations-Prescribed Drugs.

Revises the criteria associated with the potentially preventable readmission reimbursement adjustment.

To reinstate reimbursement for Emergency Medical Transportation to the rate paid prior to the three percent reduction which was implemented on January 1, 2016.

To reinstate reimbursement for Private Duty Nursing, including those which are delivered through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit, to the rate paid prior to the three percent reduction which was implemented on January 1, 2016.

This amendment proposes to revise the provisions governing qualifying criteria for disproportionate share hospitals payments to LA low-income Academic Hospitals.

Updates Maryland's State Plan to clean-up inconsistencies between the State Plan and regulations, as well as fix broken website links caused during Maryland's website migration.

Adds freestanding birth centers as a new provider type eligible for Medicaid reimbursement.