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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 203 By: Thompson
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the state Medicaid program;
requiring the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to
provide certain reimbursement to hospita ls under
specified conditions; directing the Authority to seek
certain federal approval; providing for codification;
providing an effective date; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5025.1 of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall provide Medicaid
reimbursement to a hospital at one hundred percent (100%) of the
statewide average nursing facility per diem rate for an individual
if the individual:
1. Is enrolled in the state Medicaid program;
2. Has been admitted as an inpatient to such hospital;
3. No longer requires acute inpatient care and discharge
planning as described in 4 2 C.F.R., Section 482.43;
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4. Requires nursing facility level of care upon discharge; and
5. Is unable to be transferred to a nursing facility due to a
lack of nursing facility beds available to the individual or, in
cases where the transfer requires a guardian, because the court has
not appointed a guardia n.
B. Reimbursement for services under this section shall be
subject to federal approval. The Authority shall seek any fede ral
approval necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or saf ety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
60-1-750 DC 12/30/2024 3:27:57 PM