Floor Packet Page No. 50                                                    

	
Amend CSSB 1 by adding on page II-__ in the bill pattern of 
the Health and Human Services Commission a rider that reads as 
follows:
	Critical Medicaid Hospital Reimbursement. It is the intent of 
the legislature that the Health and Human Services Commission may 
seek the necessary state plan amendments or a waiver for 
establishing a separate and distinct Medicaid inpatient and 
outpatient reimbursement methodology for supplementing the rates 
paid to public hospitals who are critical care providers, as 
defined by the Health and Human Services Commission that are 
essential to the Medicaid program. The Commission shall use either 
a certified public expenditures process or local funds transferred 
by local government entities as the non-federal share to draw 
Medicaid federal funds.