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.