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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 711
BY SENATORS CHEEK AND LAFLEUR
FUNDS/FUNDING. Provides for the Community Hospital Stabilization Fund. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To enact Chapter 64 of Title 46 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised2
of R.S. 46:2901, relative to the Community Hospital Stabilization Fund; to create the3
Community Hospital Stabilization Fund as a special fund in the state treasury; to4
provide for deposit of certain monies into the fund; to provide for the uses of monies5
in the fund; to provide for certain Medicaid and disproportionate share payments to6
non-rural, non-state community hospitals; to provide for an effective date; and to7
provide for related matters.8
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:9
Section 1. Chapter 64 of Title 46 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be10
comprised of R.S. 46:2901, is hereby enacted to read as follows: 11
CHAPTER 64. COMMUNITY HOSPITAL STABILIZATION FUND12
ยง2901. Community Hospital Stabilization Fund13
A. There is hereby established in the state treasury, as a special fund, the14
Community Hospital Stabilization Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "fund".15
B. The source of monies deposited into the fund shall be any monies16
appropriated annually by the legislature or any other monies which may be17 SB NO. 711
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provided by law. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the1
end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund. The monies in the fund shall be2
invested by the state treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state3
general fund, and interest earned on the investment of such monies shall be4
credited to the fund. The state treasurer shall report the status of the fund at5
least quarterly to the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals.6
C. The monies in the fund shall be appropriated annually and used solely7
for purposes as specified, as follows:8
(1) Supplemental payments for inpatient and outpatient Medicaid9
hospital services, Medicaid outlier payments, and Medicaid Disproportionate10
Share Hospital (DSH) payments to non-state, non-rural community hospitals.11
(2) Enhanced Medicaid payments to non-state, non-rural community12
hospitals.13
(3) Enhanced DSH payments and uncompensated care payments to14
non-state, non-rural community hospitals.15
(4) Payments for services of the state Medicaid program for non-state,16
non-rural community hospitals that are subject to federal financial17
participation in matching funds.18
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor19
or, if not signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law20
without signature by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the21
Constitution of Louisiana. If vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by22
the legislature, this Act shall become effective on the day following such approval.23
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jay R. Lueckel.
DIGEST
Cheek (SB 711)
Proposed law establishes the Community Hospital Stabilization Fund as a special fund in the
state treasury and provides for the sources of monies to be deposited into the fund, including
any monies appropriated annually by the legislature or any other monies provided by law.
Proposed law provides that monies in the fund may be appropriated annually and used solely SB NO. 711
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for purposes as follows:
1. Supplemental payments for inpatient and outpatient Medicaid hospital services,
Medicaid outlier payments, and Medicaid disproportionate share payments to non-state, non-
rural community hospitals.
2.Enhanced Medicaid payments to non-state, non-rural community hospitals.
3. Enhanced disproportionate share payments and uncompensated care payments to
non-state, non-rural community hospitals.
4. Payments for services of the state Medicaid program for non-state, non-rural
community hospitals that are subject to federal financial participation in matching funds.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 46:2901)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Finance to the original
bill.
1. Limits deposits into the Community Hospital Stabilization Fund to monies
appropriated annually by the legislature or any other monies provided by law.
2. Limits the uses of monies in the fund, as follows: supplemental payments;
enhanced Medicaid payments; enhanced disproportionate share payments;
and payments for certain Medicaid services.