74.60.100 - Critical access hospital payments.

Critical access hospital payments. (Expires July 1, 2013.)

Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in RCW 74.60.150(1), the department shall pay critical access hospitals that do not qualify for or receive a small rural disproportionate share payment in the subject state fiscal year an access payment of fifty dollars for each medicaid inpatient day, exclusive of days on which a swing bed is used for subacute care, from and after July 1, 2009. Initial payments to hospitals, covering the period from July 1, 2009, to the date when the applicable conditions under RCW 74.60.150(1) are satisfied, shall be made within sixty calendar days after such conditions are satisfied. Subsequent payments shall be made to critical access hospitals on an annual basis at the time that disproportionate share eligibility and payment for the state fiscal year are established. These payments shall be in addition to any other amount payable with respect to services provided by critical access hospitals and shall not reduce any other payments to critical access hospitals.

[2010 1st sp.s. c 30 § 11.]