SLS 18RS-497 ORIGINAL
2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 144
BY SENATOR MILLS
HOSPITALS. Provides for the repeal of the hospital prospective reimbursement
methodology. (8/1/18)
1 AN ACT
2 To repeal R.S. 40:1241, relative to the hospital prospective reimbursement methodology; to
3 provide for the repeal of certain eligibility criteria for a major teaching hospital to
4 be eligible for prospective reimbursement; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:1241 is hereby repealed.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 144 Original 2018 Regular Session Mills
Present law provides major teaching hospitals with an opportunity for Medicaid
reimbursement based on a hospital prospective reimbursement methodology in which
Medicaid payment is made based on a predetermined fixed amount if the hospital has an
affiliation with a Louisiana medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical
Education and participates in at least four approved medical residency programs of which
two are in medicine, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, family practice, emergency medicine,
or psychiatry, or maintains an intern and resident full-time equivalency of at least 20 filled
positions.
Proposed law repeals present law.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Repeals R.S. 40:1241)
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.