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Notice: 7021168

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Division:

Medicaid

Chapter:

REIMBURSEMENT TO PROVIDERS

Overview

RULE:

59G-6.030

Payment Methodology for Outpatient Hospital Services

PURPOSE:

The purpose and effect of the proposed rule is to incorporate changes to the Florida Title XIX Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement Plan payment methodology, effective March 1, 2009, in accordance with Senate Bill 2-A, 2008-2009 Special Appropriations Act, Specific Appropriation 111.
Effective March 1, 2009, the Agency for Health Care Administration shall implement a recurring methodology in the Title XIX Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement Plan to reduce individual outpatient hospital rates proportionately until the required savings is achieved.
Hospitals that are licensed as a children’s specialty hospital and whose Medicaid days plus charity care days divided by total adjusted patient days equals or exceeds 30 percent are excluded from this reduction.
The Agency may amend its current facility fees and physician services to allow for payments to hospitals providing primary care to low-income individuals and participating in the Primary Care DSH program in Fiscal Year 2003-2004 provided such hospital implements an emergency room diversion program so that non-emergent patients are triaged to lesser acute settings. Any payments made to qualifying hospitals because of this change shall be contingent on the state share being provided through grants and donations from counties, local governments, public entities, or taxing districts, and federal matching funds.
Public hospitals, teaching hospitals as defined in Section 408.07(45) or 395.805, Florida Statutes, which have seventy or more full-time equivalent resident physicians, designated trauma centers and those hospitals whose Medicaid and charity care days divided by total adjusted days exceeds twenty five percent are permitted to buy back the Medicaid outpatient trend adjustment applied to their individual hospital rates and other Medicaid reductions to their outpatient rates up to actual Medicaid outpatient cost.
The agency shall use the 2002, 2003 and 2004 audited DSH data available as of March 1, 2008. In the event the agency does not have the prescribed three years of audited DSH data for a hospital, the agency shall use the average of the audited DSH data for 2002, 2003 and 2004 that are available.

SUMMARY:

Effective March 1, 2009, in accordance with Senate Bill 2-A, 2008-2009 Special Appropriations Act, Specific Appropriation 111, the Agency for Health Care Administration shall implement a recurring methodology in the Title XIX Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement Plan to reduce individual hospital rates proportionately until the required savings is achieved. Hospitals that meet specific criteria are eligible to buy back their rate cut.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

409.919 FS.

LAW:

409.908 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

4/17/2009 Vol. 35/15

COMMENTS:

From 4/17/2009 To 5/8/2009 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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