189.095. Hospitals which qualify for certain Medicaid funds are ineligible to receive certain payments--hospitals may elect to reject, when--division of medical services to use funds which would have

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189.095. Hospitals which qualify for certain Medicaid funds are ineligible to receive certain payments--hospitals may elect to reject, when--division of medical services to use funds which would have

Hospitals which qualify for certain Medicaid funds are ineligible toreceive certain payments--hospitals may elect to reject,when--division of medical services to use funds which would havegone to hospital--division may issue rules and regulations.

189.095. 1. Hospitals eligible for payments pursuant to theprovisions of sections 189.015 to 189.050, which also qualify ashospitals serving a disproportionate number of low incomepatients pursuant to subdivision (1) of section 208.152, RSMo,and regulations issued thereunder, shall, because of suchqualification, become ineligible to receive payments undersections 189.015 to 189.050 during the period of suchqualification.

2. Moneys which, but for the provisions of this section,would have been paid to hospitals made ineligible by theprovisions of this section shall be paid over to the division ofmedical services of the department of social services and used,upon appropriation, by the division of medical services forpayments to hospitals.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, anyhospital determined to be ineligible for payments pursuant to theprovisions of sections 189.015 to 189.050, solely because of itsqualification pursuant to subdivision (1) of section 208.152,RSMo, may elect to reject such qualification by July fifteenth ofany year and accept its eligibility pursuant to sections 189.015to 189.050.

4. The division of medical services of the department ofsocial services may issue rules and regulations necessary tocarry out the provisions of this section.