618 Additional class of disproportionate share payments for critical access hospitals and qualifying rural hospitals?

DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WELFARE

Additional Class of Disproportionate Share Payments for Critical Access Hospitals and Qualifying Rural Hospitals

[40 Pa.B. 1839]
[Saturday, April 3, 2010]

 The Department of Public Welfare is announcing its intent to decrease the allocation of funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments to qualifying hospitals based on the designation as a Critical Access Hospital or as a qualifying rural hospital. This decrease is a result of the mid-year spending reductions to the Commonwealth's 2009-2010 enacted budget. There will be no change in the current qualifying criteria or methodology for determining eligibility for these payments.

Fiscal Impact

 For FY 2009-2010 these DSH payments will total $9.687 million ($4.378 million in State funds), reflecting a reduction of $1.078 ($0.487 million in State funds) from the amounts appropriated in Act 10-A of 2009.

Public Comment

 Interested persons are invited to submit written comments regarding this notice to the Department of Public Welfare, Office of Medical Assistance Programs, c/o Regulations Coordinator, Room 515, Health and Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120. Comments received within 30 days will be reviewed and considered for any subsequent revision of the notice.

 Persons with a disability who require an auxiliary aid or service may submit comments using the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at [phone] (TDD users) or [phone] (voice users).

HARRIET DICHTER, 
Acting Secretary

 Fiscal Note: 14-NOT-636. No fiscal impact; (8) recommends adoption.

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 10-618. Filed for public inspection April 2, 2010, 9:00 a.m.]