WA Rev Code § 74.60.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 74 - Public Assistance|Chapter 74.60 - Hospital Safety Net Assessment.|74.60.090 - Grants to certified public expenditure hospitals.

RCW 74.60.090 Grants to certified public expenditure hospitals. (Expires July 1, 2025.)(1) In each fiscal year commencing upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions in RCW 74.60.150(1), funds must be disbursed from the fund and the authority shall make grants to certified public expenditure hospitals, which shall not be considered payments for hospital services, as follows:(a) University of Washington medical center: Up to twelve million fifty-five thousand dollars in state fiscal year 2022 through 2025 paid as follows, except if the full amount of the payments required under RCW 74.60.120(1) and 74.60.130 cannot be distributed in a given fiscal year, the amounts in this subsection must be reduced proportionately:(i) Five million nine hundred fifty-five thousand dollars in state fiscal years 2022 through 2025;(ii) Two million dollars to integrated, evidence-based psychiatry residency program slots that did not receive state funding prior to 2016, at the integrated psychiatry residency program at the University of Washington; and(iii) Four million one hundred thousand dollars to family medicine residency program slots that did not receive state funding prior to 2016, as directed through the family medicine residency network at the University of Washington, for slots where residents are employed by hospitals;(b) Harborview medical center: Ten million two hundred sixty thousand dollars in each state fiscal year 2022 through 2025, except if the full amount of the payments required under RCW 74.60.120(1) and 74.60.130 cannot be distributed in a given fiscal year, the amounts in this subsection must be reduced proportionately;(c) All other certified public expenditure hospitals: Five million six hundred fifteen thousand dollars in each state fiscal year 2022 through 2025, except if the full amount of the payments required under RCW 74.60.120(1) and 74.60.130 cannot be distributed in a given fiscal year, the amounts in this subsection must be reduced proportionately. The amount of payments to individual hospitals under this subsection must be determined using a methodology that provides each hospital with a proportional allocation of the group's total amount of medicaid and state children's health insurance program payments determined from claims and encounter data using the same general methodology set forth in RCW 74.60.120 (3) and (4).(2) Payments must be made quarterly, before the end of each quarter, taking the total disbursement amount and dividing by four to calculate the quarterly amount. The authority shall provide a quarterly report of such payments to the Washington state hospital association.[ 2021 c 255 § 3; 2019 c 318 § 6; 2017 c 228 § 6; 2015 2nd sp.s. c 5 § 5; 2013 2nd sp.s. c 17 § 8; 2011 1st sp.s. c 35 § 2; 2010 1st sp.s. c 30 § 10.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 318: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Effective date—2017 c 228: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Effective date—2015 2nd sp.s. c 5: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Effective date—2013 2nd sp.s. c 17: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Expiration date—Effective date—2011 1st sp.s. c 35: See notes following RCW 74.60.020.