California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14105.17

WIC § 14105.17 Effective Jul 7, 2000Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 7 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Each hospital designated by the department as a critical access hospital, and certified as such by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the federal Medicare rural hospital flexibility program, shall be eligible for supplemental payments for Medi-Cal covered outpatient services rendered to Medi-Cal eligible persons.

(b)Payments made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be contingent upon receipt of federal financial participation, and shall be limited by the appropriation in the annual Budget Act for the nonfederal share of these payments. Supplemental payments shall be apportioned among critical access hospitals based upon their number of Medi-Cal outpatient visits.

(c)Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as meaning that a critical access hospital is not a general acute care hospital.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 93, Sec. 70. Effective July 7, 2000. Conditionally inoperative as provided in subd. (d).