SLS 18RS-497 ENGROSSED
2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 144
BY SENATOR MILLS
HOSPITALS. Provides for the repeal of the hospital prospective reimbursement
methodology. (See Act)
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 R.S. 40:1241 is hereby repealed.
7 Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall only become effective upon
8 implementation of a diagnosis related group hospital payment methodology pursuant to an
9 approved state plan amendment by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 144 Engrossed 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.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 144
SLS 18RS-497 ENGROSSED
Proposed law repeals present law.
Effective upon implementation of a diagnosis related group hospital payment methodology
approved by CMS.
(Repeals R.S. 40:1241)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to
the original bill
1. Provides that the provisions of the Act shall only become effective upon
implementation of a diagnosis related group hospital payment methodology
approved by CMS.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.