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	Amend CSHB 1, in Article II of the bill, by amending Rider 51 
following the appropriations to the Health and Human Services 
Commission (Freestanding Psychiatric Facilities rider, page II-77) 
to read as follows:
	51. Freestanding Psychiatric Facilities. To determine 
Medicaid payment for inpatient services in freestanding 
psychiatric facilities, it is the intent of the Legislature that 
the Health and Human Services Commission adopt a reimbursement 
methodology based on the prospective payment system currently used 
by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reimburse 
inpatient psychiatric services [under the Medicare program], to the 
extent the commission finds that the increase in reimbursement  
[it] is cost-effective.