LRB-2090/P3
SWB:amn&ahe
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Ames, BB0404 - Pediatric Inpatient Supplement
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Medical Assistance
1. Pediatric Inpatient Supplement
This bill establishes in statute reference to supplemental funding totaling $2,000,000 to be distributed by DHS to certain acute care hospitals located in Wisconsin that have a total of more than 12,000 inpatient days in the hospital's acute care pediatric units and intensive care pediatric units, not including neonatal intensive care units. In addition, under the bill, DHS may distribute additional funding of $10,000,000 in each state fiscal year to hospitals that are free-standing pediatric teaching hospitals located in Wisconsin that have a Medicaid inpatient utilization rate greater than 45 percent.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 49.45 (6xm) of the statutes is created to read:
49.45 (6xm) Pediatric inpatient supplement. (a) From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (4) (b), (o), and (w), the department shall, using a method determined by the department, distribute a total sum of $2,000,000 each state fiscal year to hospitals that meet all of the following criteria:
1. The hospital is an acute care hospital located in this state.
2. During the hospital's fiscal year, the inpatient days in the hospital's acute care pediatric units and intensive care pediatric units totaled more than 12,000 days, not including neonatal intensive care units. For purposes of this subsection, the hospital's fiscal year is the hospital's fiscal year that ended in the 2nd calendar year preceding the beginning of the state fiscal year.
(b) Notwithstanding par. (a), from the appropriations under s. 20.435 (4) (b), (o), and (w), the department may, using a method determined by the department, distribute an additional total sum of $10,000,000 in each state fiscal year to hospitals that are free-standing pediatric teaching hospitals located in Wisconsin that have a percentage calculated under s. 49.45 (3m) (b) 1. a. greater than 45 percent.
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