Report Title:

Critical Access Hospitals

Description:

Makes permanent the exemption of "critical access hospital", payment methodology to these hospitals using medicare reasonable cost principles, and exemption of these hospitals from medicaid reimbursement equity. (CD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2608

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1


C.D. 1

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 by amending section 9 to read as follows:

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 This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000[, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2004; provided that sections 346-1 , 346-59, 346D-1, and 346D-1.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which they read on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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

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