56-1401 SHORT TITLE -- LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 14
IDAHO HOSPITAL ASSESSMENT ACT
56-1401. Short title -- Legislative intent. [effective until july 1, 2012.] (1) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Idaho Hospital Assessment Act."
(2) It is the intent of the legislature to encourage the maximization of financial resources eligible and available for medicaid services by establishing a fund within the Idaho department of health and welfare to receive private hospital assessments to use in securing federal matching funds under federally prescribed upper payment limit and disproportionate share hospital programs and to maximize reimbursement for allowable costs available through the state medicaid plan.
(3) It is also the intent of the legislature to assess private hospitals to maintain adequate state trustee and benefit funds.
56-1401. Short title -- Legislative intent. [effective july 1, 2012.] (1) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Idaho Hospital Assessment Act."
(2) It is the intent of the legislature to encourage the maximization of financial resources eligible and available for medicaid services by establishing a fund within the Idaho department of health and welfare to receive private hospital assessments to use in securing federal matching funds under federally prescribed upper payment limit and disproportionate share hospital programs available through the state medicaid plan.