(a) Due to the state budget deficit and in order to implement changes in the level of funding for health care services, the department shall reduce disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals made pursuant to Section 14166.11 as specified in this section.
(b) (1) Disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals pursuant to Section 14166.11 shall be reduced by 10 percent. The reductions shall be applied to all disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals made for the 2009–10 fiscal year, including, but not limited to, interim payments, tentative adjusted monthly payments, data corrected payments, and the final adjusted payment.
(2) Disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals pursuant to Section 14166.11 shall be reduced in the 2010–11 fiscal year by thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) in General Fund moneys and by the corresponding federal financial participation. To the extent permitted by federal law, the additional room created by this paragraph under the federal upper payment limit shall be used to increase supplemental payments under Article 5.226 (commencing with Section 14168.1) and Article 5.227 (commencing with Section 14168.31).
(3) Disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals pursuant to Section 14166.11 shall be reduced in the 2011–12 fiscal year by seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) in General Fund moneys and by the corresponding federal financial participation. To the extent permitted by federal law, the additional room created by this paragraph under the federal upper payment limit shall be used to increase supplemental payments under legislation extending or creating a new supplemental hospital payment program supported by a fee.
(4) Disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals pursuant to Section 14166.11 shall be reduced in the 2012–13 fiscal year by ten million five hundred thousand dollars ($10,500,000) in General Fund moneys and by the corresponding federal financial participation.
(5) Disproportionate share hospital replacement payments to private hospitals pursuant to Section 14166.11 shall be reduced in the 2013–14 fiscal year by five million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,250,000) in General Fund moneys and by the corresponding federal financial participation.
(c) Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department may implement and administer this section by means of provider bulletins, or similar instructions, without taking further regulatory action.
(d) The reductions described in this section shall apply only to payments for services when the General Fund share of the payment is paid with funds appropriated to the department in the annual Budget Act.
(e) The department shall promptly seek any necessary federal approvals for the implementation of this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 286, Sec. 3. (SB 335) Effective September 16, 2011. Conditionally inoperative as provided in Section 14166.26 or in subd. (b) or (g) of Section 14166.2. Repealed on date prescribed in Section 14166.26 or in subd. (b) or (g) of Section 14166.2.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018