SB2567

Mississippi Pediatric Access to Critical Health Care Protection Act ensures payments to out-of-state pediatric hospitals.

The Mississippi Pediatric Access to Critical Health Care Protection Act mandates the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to make payments to a border city university-affiliated pediatric teaching hospital if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approve an increase in the annual request for the provider payment initiative. The act aims to ensure that the cost of providing services to Mississippi Medicaid beneficiaries under the age of twenty-one years treated by such hospitals does not exceed the cost of providing the same services in state hospitals.