SB 5872 (see companion bill HB 1878) – Washington
Status: Inactive / DeadYear Introduced: 2019
Link: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5872&Year=2019&Initiative=false
Providing enhanced payment to low volume, small rural hospitals. 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.
Key Issues:
Provider Payment
HEALTHCARE COSTS
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