249J.21 - PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS BASED ON ACTUAL COSTS. - Iowa Statutes

249J.21 PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS BASED ON ACTUAL COSTS. Payments, including graduate medical education payments, under the medical assistance program and the expansion population to each public hospital and each public nursing facility shall not exceed the actual medical assistance costs of each such facility reported on the Medicare hospital and hospital health care complex cost report submitted to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services. Each public hospital and each public nursing facility shall retain one hundred percent of the medical assistance payments earned under state reimbursement rules. State reimbursement rules may provide for reimbursement at less than actual cost.          Section History: Recent Form 2005 Acts, ch 167, §22, 66