House Journal: Page 1069: Tuesday, March 28, 2000
1 university hospital for medical and surgical treatment
2 of indigent patients as provided in chapter 255 and to
3 the state university of Iowa for educational purposes
4 at the same level as provided by the state funds
5 initially appropriated for that purpose.
6 The department of human services shall, in any
7 compilation of data or other report distributed to the
8 public concerning payments to providers under the
9 medical assistance program, set forth reimbursements
10 to a qualifying hospital through the supplemental
11 disproportionate share and supplemental indirect
12 medical education adjustment as a separate item and
13 shall not include such payments in the amounts
14 otherwise reported as the reimbursement to a
15 qualifying hospital for services to medical assistance
16 recipients.
17 For purposes of this section, "supplemental
18 payment" means a supplemental payment amount paid for
19 medical assistance to a hospital qualifying for that
20 payment under this section.
21 Sec. 10. 2000 Iowa Acts, House File 2039, section
22 24, is amended to read as follows:
23 SEC. 24. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE CLAIMING BY STATE
24 BOARD OF REGENTS. The state shall enter into a
25 contract to enhance claiming of medical assistance
26 program reimbursement payable for services provided by
27 the state university of Iowa hospitals and clinics.
28 After payment of contract costs, the first $4,000,000
29 $12,000,000 received in additional reimbursement from
30 the enhanced claiming during the period beginning with
31 the effective date of this Act, and ending June 30,
32 2001, shall be credited to the general fund of the
33 state. The balance of the additional reimbursement
34 received during the period is appropriated to the
35 state board of regents for the state university of
36 Iowa hospitals and clinics for other expenses
37 associated with the enhanced claiming and for the
38 provision of services. The state board of regents
39 shall report quarterly during the period delineated in
40 this section to the department of management and the
41 legislative fiscal bureau concerning the enhanced
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