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REFERENCE TITLE: AHCCCS; reimbursement rates; rural hospitals |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2198 |
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Introduced by Representatives Willoughby: Kupper
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AN ACT
Amending title 36, chapter 29, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-2909.01; relating to the Arizona health care cost containment system.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 29, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-2909.01, to read:
36-2909.01. Emergency hospitalization and medical care; rural hospitals; reimbursement; definition
A. Beginning in fiscal year 2025-2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, nOtwithstanding any other provision of this article relating to the reimbursement of emergency hospitalization and medical care, the administration shall increase the fee-for-service reimbursement rates for emergency hospitalization and medical care provided by rural hospitals by thirty percent over the fiscal year 2024-2025 reimbursement rates.
B. For the purposes of this section, "rural hospital" means a hospital that is located in a county with a population of less than one million persons.