KRS § 205.6412 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 205 / Section 205.6412
205.6412 Rate improvement program for certain qualifying hospitals -- Eligibility -- Federal participation and approval required for implementation of program
Status: in_force

205.6412 Rate improvement program for certain qualifying hospitals -- Eligibility -

- Federal participation and approval required for implementation of program.

To the extent permitted under federal law and in addition to, and separate from, the

programs developed pursuant to KRS 205.6406, the department shall develop a program

to improve quality of and access to care for residents of the Commonwealth enrolled in

the state's Medicaid program by increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates for qualifying

hospitals in accordance with the following:

(1) (a) A qualifying hospital shall be eligible to earn enhanced add-on payments from

Medicaid managed care organizations based on the qualifying hospital's

average commercial rate for services provided, including but not limited to

inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, and professional

services, if the qualifying hospital:

1. a. Is a participant in the hospital rate improvement program

developed pursuant to KRS 205.6406;

b. Is a Level II, III, or IV trauma center;

c. Is located in a county in which the percentage of the county's

population enrolled in the state's Medicaid program exceeds the

statewide median Medicaid enrollment percentage for all counties

as posted by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the

December edition of the Monthly Medicaid Counts by County

report for the calendar year preceding the year in which the

preprint is submitted; and

d. Has an agreement for clinical rotations to train providers with a

university-affiliated graduate medical education program; or

2. Is a pediatric teaching hospital as defined in KRS 205.565, except that a

hospital qualifying for enhanced add-on payments under this

subparagraph shall only be eligible to receive enhanced add-on

payments for services delivered to a patient who is eighteen (18) years

of age or younger;

(b) There shall be an identified source of funding, which shall be separate from

the assessment authorized in KRS 205.6406 and shall not be from the general

fund, for the nonfederal share that is in compliance with the requirements of

the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;

(c) A qualifying hospital shall be required to report the same quality measures as

are applicable under the state university teaching hospital Medicaid directed

payment plan; and

(d) Reimbursement for qualifying hospitals under this section shall only apply to

patients covered by a Medicaid managed care organization.

(2) The state directed payment program authorized under this section shall be separate

and distinct from any state directed payment program authorized under KRS

205.6406, and the department shall only implement the program described in this

section if:

(a) Medicaid documentation required for federal financial participation is

approved by the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;

and

(b) The United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services agrees to

consider the program through its own preprint and without affecting or

altering any other state directed payment program.

(3) The department shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with

KRS Chapter 13A to implement the program described in this section.