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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 1878: Small rural hospital payment

Providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals.

Summary

  • Increases medicaid payments for certain hospitals to one hundred fifty percent of the medicaid fee-for-service fee schedule. Provides that qualifying hospitals must: Have fewer than fifty acute beds; not be designated as a critical access hospital under state or federal regulations; and, have combined medicare and medicaid inpatient days greater than fifty percent.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 4, 2019
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Bruce Chandler (R-15)
Introduced
February 4, 2019 in the House
Last action
January 13, 2020
Companion bill
SB 5872

AN ACT Relating to providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Bruce Chandler (R-15)

5 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 3 Republicans)

Jeff Morris D-40Mike Chapman D-24Gina Mosbrucker R-14Jeremie Dufault R-15Mike Steele R-12

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Appropriations.

HB 1878 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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