provides for a rate increase for Early Intervention Services.

amends the provisions governing reimbursement to non-state intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities in order to implement administrative penalties related to noncompliance with the direct care floor requirements.

increase for Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services.

Clarifies the payment methodology for the Enhanced Payment for Private Trauma Hospital program by removing references to contingent county funding.

Updates required implement changes to payments to hospitals meeting certain criteria for Sole Community Hospitals (SCHs).

increases South Carolina Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) facility rates to $500 per patient day (PPD).

updates rates for Substance Use Disorder.

adds an additional class of supplemental payments to acute care general hospitals for qualified high volumes hospitals that are non-rural in medically under served areas.

adds a value-based purchasing (VBP) supplemental sub-pool that distributes $600,000 annually to eligible hospitals based on performance on one or more predetermined quality measures.

allows the Arkansas Department of Human Services to amend their Long Term Care reimbursement manual to update its payment methodology for skilled nursing facilities. These revisions were necessary due to changes in the skilled nursing facility standards over the past several years.