1st: Focus Update To Existing CAH Program
Continues providing cost-based reimbursement for inpatient and outpatient services.
Add a ëreturn on equityí to addressing technology and infrastructure needs.
Extends enhanced cost-based reimbursement to post-acute care services, including skilled nursing facility, and home health.
Permits and extends enhanced reimbursement to geriatric psychiatric care and rehab (10 bed limit).
Eliminates the current 35-mile test for hospital based ambulance services.