14169.55. (Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 442, Sec. 29.)

(a) Private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital inpatient services for each subject fiscal quarter in a program period as set forth in this section. The supplemental amounts shall be in addition to any other amounts payable to hospitals with respect to those services and shall not affect any other payments to hospitals. The inpatient supplemental amounts shall result in payments to hospitals that equal the applicable federal upper payment limit for the subject fiscal year, except that with respect to a subject fiscal year that begins before the start of a program period or that ends after the end of the program period for which the payments are made, the inpatient supplemental amounts shall result in payments to hospitals that equal a percentage of the applicable upper payment limit where the percentage equals the percentage of the subject fiscal year that occurs during the program period.

(b) Except as set forth in subdivisions (e) and (f), each private hospital shall be paid the sum of the following amounts as applicable for the provision of hospital inpatient services for each subject fiscal quarter:

(1) A general acute care per diem supplemental rate multiplied by the hospital’s general acute care days.

(2) An acute psychiatric per diem supplemental rate multiplied by the hospital’s acute psychiatric days.

(3) A high acuity per diem supplemental rate multiplied by the number of the hospital’s high acuity days if the hospital’s Medicaid inpatient utilization rate is less than the percent required to be eligible to receive disproportionate share replacement funds for the state fiscal year ending in the base calendar year and greater than 5 percent and at least 5 percent of the hospital’s general acute care days are high acuity days.

(4) A high acuity trauma per diem supplemental rate multiplied by the number of the hospital’s high acuity days if the hospital qualifies to receive the amount set forth in paragraph (3) and has been designated as a Level I, Level II, Adult/Ped Level I, or Adult/Ped Level II trauma center by the Emergency Medical Services Authority established pursuant to Section 1797.1 of the Health and Safety Code.

(5) A transplant per diem supplemental rate multiplied by the number of the hospital’s transplant days if the hospital’s Medicaid inpatient utilization rate is less than the percent required to be eligible to receive disproportionate share replacement funds for the state fiscal year ending in the base calendar year and greater than 5 percent.

(6) A payment for hospital inpatient services equal to the subacute supplemental rate multiplied by the Medi-Cal subacute payments as reflected in the state paid claims file prepared by the department as of the retrieval date for the base calendar year if the private hospital provided Medi-Cal subacute services during the base calendar year.

(c) In the event federal financial participation for a subject fiscal year is not available for all of the supplemental amounts payable to private hospitals under subdivision (b) due to the application of an upper payment limit or for any other reason, both of the following shall apply:

(1) The total amount payable to private hospitals under subdivision (b) for the subject fiscal year shall be reduced to reflect the amount for which federal financial participation is available.

(2) The amount payable under subdivision (b) to each private hospital for the subject fiscal year shall be equal to the amount computed under subdivision (b) multiplied by the ratio of the total amount for which federal financial participation is available to the total amount computed under subdivision (b).

(e) Payments shall not be made under this section for the periods when a hospital is a new hospital during a program period.

(f) Payments shall be made to a converted hospital that converts during a subject fiscal quarter by multiplying the hospital’s supplemental payment as calculated in subdivision (b) by the number of days that the hospital was a private hospital in the subject fiscal quarter, divided by the number of days in the subject fiscal quarter. Payments shall not be made to a converted hospital in any subsequent subject fiscal quarter.