• Date Due: November 15, 2025
  • Author: Department of Medical Assistance Services
  • Enabling Authority: Appropriation Act - Item 288 QQQQQ.1. (Regular Session, 2025)
  • Description:
    Report on the establishment of objective and measurable performance measures for acute care hospitals that are receiving private acute care hospital enhanced payments authorized in § 3-5.15 of the 2025 Appropriation Act, and shall assess whether the additional payments improve services for Medicaid members, include requirements to ensure access to care by Medicaid members through network adequacy requirements to prevent a hospital from reducing its service offerings in a manner that would have an adverse impact on Medicaid members in the community, and include requirements to ensure improved coordination of care for behavioral health patients, including continued participation by hospitals in the acute bed registry.