1. The Board of Trustees of the Fund for Hospital Care to Indigent Persons may enter into an agreement with the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services whereby:
(a) The Board agrees to transfer an agreed upon amount of money each year from the Fund to the Division;
(b) The Division agrees to use the money so transferred to:
(1) Include in the State Plan for Medicaid an enhanced rate of reimbursement for hospital care provided to recipients of Medicaid or to make supplemental payments to the hospital for the provision of such hospital care through increased federal financial participation;
(2) Offset any decrease in savings generated by any component of the upper payment limit program established under the State Plan for Medicaid that results from providing supplemental payments to hospitals from the Fund pursuant to subparagraph (1); and
(3) Satisfy any portion of the obligation of a county to pay the nonfederal share of expenditures pursuant to NRS 422.272;
(c) The Division agrees to return any money transferred to the Division pursuant to the agreement if the Federal Government does not approve the enhanced rate of reimbursement or supplemental payments included in the State Plan;
(d) The Board agrees to continue to transfer not less than the same amount of money as the previous year if the State Plan is approved by the Federal Government until the Board has requested the Division to exclude the enhanced rate of reimbursement or supplemental payments from the State Plan and the Federal Government approves the State Plan without such enhanced rates or supplemental payments; and
(e) The Division agrees to exclude the enhanced rate of reimbursement or supplemental payments from the State Plan when it is next submitted to the Federal Government for approval if so requested by the Board.
2. Any money transferred from the Fund to the Division pursuant to this section must not be used to replace or supplant funding available from other sources for the same purpose.
3. As used in this section, "upper payment limit program" means a program providing for supplemental payments, not to exceed a limit calculated in the manner prescribed in the State Plan for Medicaid, to hospitals owned or operated by a governmental entity other than this State or an agency of this State.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 2881; A 2019, 2432)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 428 - Indigent Persons
NRS 428.010 - Duty of county to provide aid and relief to indigents; duties of county commissioners.
NRS 428.020 - Determination of county of residence.
NRS 428.040 - Indigent person to provide information and cooperation when applying for relief.
NRS 428.080 - Expenditure for transportation of nonresident indigent to place of residence.
NRS 428.095 - Liability insurance for persons rendering medical care.
NRS 428.110 - Criminal and civil penalties for bringing nonresident indigent into county.
NRS 428.125 - "Board" defined.
NRS 428.145 - "Hospital" defined.
NRS 428.155 - "Hospital care" defined.
NRS 428.165 - "Injury in a motor vehicle crash" defined.
NRS 428.175 - Fund for Hospital Care to Indigent Persons.
NRS 428.185 - Levy of tax ad valorem for remittance to Fund.
NRS 428.195 - Board of Trustees of Fund: Composition; terms; vacancies; designees.
NRS 428.205 - Board of Trustees of Fund: Powers.
NRS 428.215 - Collection of charges for care by hospital; request for determination of indigency.
NRS 428.225 - Certification of indigency.
NRS 428.235 - Application for reimbursement of charges; hospitals eligible for reimbursement.
NRS 428.255 - Reimbursement of Fund by counties.
NRS 428.275 - Fund for medical assistance to indigent persons.
NRS 428.295 - Allocation of money in budget; payment of excess from fund.