SHB 2051 — Concerning payment to acute care hospitals for difficult to discharge medicaid patients.

What this bill does

Removes the requirement that hospitals be reimbursed for medical assistance enrollees staying in a hospital when they do not meet inpatient care criteria and are not discharged from the hospital because an appropriate placement is not available. Removes the requirement for the Health Care Authority to adopt rules to identify which health care services must be included in the daily reimbursement rate and which services may be billed separately for patients who are in a hospital and do not meet inpatient criteria. Removes the requirement that medically necessary services performed during a stay shall be billed by and paid to the hospital separately. Such services may include, but are not limited to, hemodialysis, laboratory charges, and X-rays.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 17, 2025
  57 yea · 38 nay · 3 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 26, 2025
  27 yea · 20 nay · 1 not voting

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