Bill Text: CT HB05412 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Transferring Hospital Uncompensated Care Funds And Urban Disproportionate Share Hospital Funds Into The Fund For Hospital Medicaid Rates.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-13 - Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations [HB05412 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05412-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2010 |
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AN ACT TRANSFERRING HOSPITAL UNCOMPENSATED CARE FUNDS AND URBAN DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL FUNDS INTO THE FUND FOR HOSPITAL MEDICAID RATES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the funds appropriated to hospitals in the accounts Disproportionate Share - Medical Emergency Assistance, DSH - Urban Hospitals in Distressed Municipalities and Connecticut Children's Medical Center shall be transferred to the Medicaid Rates - Hospitals account for the purpose of obtaining federal matching funds. Such funds shall be used to increase each hospital's Medicaid rate to offset one hundred per cent of the hospital's loss of disproportionate share funds resulting from the transfer of such funds.
(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall require each managed care organization participating in the HUSKY Plan to pay to contracting hospital providers no less than the rate established by the commissioner for the Medicaid fee-for-service program.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
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