Report Title:

Critical Access Hospitals; State's Share of Matching Funds

Description:

Substitutes DHS for Hawaii health systems corporation for state matching funds for rural hospitals. Makes permanent definition of "critical access hospital", payment methodology to these hospitals using medicare reasonable cost principles, and exemption of these hospitals from medicaid reimbursement equity.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2608

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to critical access hospitals.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Act 226, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, is amended as follows:

1. By amending section 6 to read:

"SECTION 6. The State's share of matching funds shall be provided through the [Hawaii health systems corporation] department of human services, as provided in part II of chapter 346, and other designated critical access hospitals' appropriations to the extent funding is available. If funding is not available, medicaid reimbursement to critical access hospitals shall revert back to the existing medicaid payment methodology."

2. By amending section 9 to read:

"SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000[, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2004; provided that sections 346-1, 346-59, 346D-1, and 346D-1.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which they read on June 30, 2000]."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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