It increases Article 16 (OPWDD) clinical staff salaries by 3.25%.

This updates the methodology for the State Teaching Hospital payment.

This amendment will provide temporary quarterly supplemental payments to Strong Memorial Hospital.

This provides for temporary rate adjustments to Medicaid rates for the North Country Homes as an eligible Licensed Home Care Agency that has been subject to or impacted by the closure, merger, consolidation, acquisition or restructuring.

This is waiver of the regulatory requirement at 42 CFR §455, Subpart F to enter into a contract with a Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) vendor to identify overpayment and underpayments, and to recoup overpayments.

Brings Pennsylvania into compliance with the reimbursement requirements in the Covered Outpatient Drug final rule with comment period (CMS-2345-FC).

This provides special consideration to border city university-affiliated pediatric teaching hospitals to utilize cost data in a manner consistent with the method used for identifying cost for private hospital access payments.

Revision of the state's Supplemental Drug Rebate Agreement template.

Requirements for (1) a face-to-face visit with a physician or authorized non-physician practitioner prior to the initiation of home health visits or provisions of durable medical equipment (DME) and appliances, (2) the provision of home health services in any setting which normal life activities take place, and (3) revises the definition of DME to comply with the Medicaid Home Health Final Rule.

This proposes to eliminate the payment for reserving a bed for a recipient temporarily absent from a nursing facility.