H-1044

   Amend Senate File 75, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 10, after line 14 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION TO APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF CARE HOSPITAL.  Transportation provided to a Medicaid recipient who, due to insufficient level of care provided at a rural emergency hospital is transferred from a rural emergency hospital to a hospital that provides the appropriate level of care, shall be reimbursed under the Medicaid program at the actual and allowable cost of the transportation.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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FORBES of Polk