Small Rural Outpatient Hospital Payments Medicaid State Plan Amendment 20-0037 Public Notice

Notice: Medicaid State Plan Amendment 20-0037 Public Notice is now available online.

Description: The Health Care Authority is submitting Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA) 20-0037 in order to comply with Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill (ESSB) 6168, which increases the rates paid to low-volume, small rural hospitals that meet certain criteria. Payments must be increased to one hundred fifty percent of the hospital’s fee-for-service rates for state and federal medical assistance programs for services provided by a qualifying hospital, regardless of the beneficiary’s managed care enrollment status.