Sec. 19a-617c. Payments for services provided in long-term acute care hospitals or satellite facilities. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 19a-617c. Payments for services provided in long-term acute care hospitals or satellite facilities. Payments made to hospitals pursuant to subsection (g) of section 17b-239 shall include any inpatient service days provided in a new long-term acute care hospital or satellite facility established as a demonstration project pursuant to section 19a-617b. For the purposes of rate setting and cost per discharge settlement pursuant to said subsection (g), the inpatient stay of a patient eligible for medical assistance shall include both short-term and long-term acute care hospital days provided in a new long-term acute care hospital or satellite facility established as a demonstration project pursuant to section 19a-617b. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, a short-term acute care hospital may enter into an agreement with a chronic disease hospital that establishes a new long-term acute care hospital or satellite facility as a demonstration project pursuant to section 19a-617b, to distribute payments received under section 17b-239 for services provided by such long-term acute care hospital or satellite facility.

      (P.A. 03-275, S. 2.)