The Social Security Act provides for additional payments to hospitals qualifying as disproportionate share hospitals under Section 1923(d) of that act. Payments to disproportionate share hospitals shall be made to all hospitals qualifying for disproportionate share hospital payments under Section 1923(d) of that act, in addition to any other payments by Medicaid. Medicaid shall fully expend the allotment to hospitals under Section 1923(f)(3) of the Social Security Act. Medicaid shall not restrict the qualifications for disproportionate share hospital payments to anything less than what the act sets out as disproportionate share hospital qualifications. The disproportionate share hospital payment to each hospital shall be made quarterly during the first month of each quarter for the state fiscal year. Medicaid shall mandate an uncompensated care survey be completed annually and returned to Medicaid by each hospital affected by this article beginning with the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and thereafter for each state fiscal year. The survey shall be conducted in a manner that complies with federal rules related to auditing and reporting of disproportionate share hospital payments, as described in 42 C.F.R. ยงยง447 and 455.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.
Chapter 26B - Providers of Medical Services Privilege Tax.
Article 5 - Hospital Funding Program.
Section 40-26B-70 - Definitions.
Section 40-26B-71 - Assessment.
Section 40-26B-72 - Program Administration.
Section 40-26B-73 - Hospital Assessment Account.
Section 40-26B-74 - Private Hospital Assessment.
Section 40-26B-75 - Quarterly Notice and Collection.
Section 40-26B-76 - Notice of Assessment.
Section 40-26B-77 - Hospital Certified Public Expenditures.
Section 40-26B-77.1 - Intergovernmental Transfers to the Medicaid Agency.
Section 40-26B-78 - Certified Public Expenditure Accounting.
Section 40-26B-79 - Inpatient Medicaid Base Payments.
Section 40-26B-80 - Outpatient Medicaid Base Payments.
Section 40-26B-81 - Medicaid Hospital Access Payments.
Section 40-26B-82 - Effectiveness and Cessation.
Section 40-26B-83 - State Plan Amendment.
Section 40-26B-84 - Federal Medical Assistance Percentage.
Section 40-26B-85 - Eligibility and Benefit Expansions.
Section 40-26B-86 - Disproportionate Share Payments.