{"id":36034,"date":"2024-03-21T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36034"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:40:59","slug":"hospital-assessment-program-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36034","title":{"rendered":"Hospital assessment program approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to increase Medicaid payments to Nebraska hospitals by accessing federal matching funds through an assessment program was approved by lawmakers March 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32954\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32954\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32954\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Mike Jacobson, District 42. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668446961&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenJacobson2023_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike Jacobson&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike Jacobson&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32954\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mike Jacobson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mike Jacobson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1087, introduced by North Platte Sen. Mike Jacobson, requires the state Department of Health and Human Services to submit a state plan amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for approval to impose an assessment on Nebraska hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, each Nebraska hospital will pay an assessment fee based on their quarterly net patient revenue. The total statewide assessment amount cannot exceed 6% of the total net patient revenue of all assessed hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be administered by DHHS, which will receive an administration fee of 3% of the assessment amount, not to exceed $15 million per year. Of the total assessed amount, 3.5% may be used for health priorities including funding non-hospital Medicaid providers. That amount is capped at $17.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was amended on select file to remove a sunset provision adopted during an earlier round of debate.<\/p>\n<p>LB1087 passed 45-0 and took effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to increase Medicaid payments to Nebraska hospitals by accessing federal matching funds through an assessment program was approved by lawmakers March 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-36034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-mike-jacobson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36034"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36042,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034\/revisions\/36042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}