Nevada § 422.27205 - State Plan for Medicaid: Inclusion of requirement for payment of costs for certain services provided by critical access hospitals

§ 422.27205. State Plan for Medicaid: Inclusion of requirement for payment of costs for certain services provided by critical access hospitals

1. The Director shall include in the State Plan for Medicaid, to the extent that federal

financial participation is available, a requirement that the State must: (a) Pay the nonfederal share of expenditures for outpatient services and swing-bed

services provided by a critical access hospital; and (b) Reimburse a critical access hospital for the services described in paragraph (a)

at a rate equal to the actual cost to the critical access hospital of providing the

services or the amount charged by the critical access hospital for the services, whichever

is less. 2. As used in this section: (a) “ Critical access hospital ” means a public or private hospital which has been certified as a critical access

hospital by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1395i-4(e) . (b) “ Swing-bed services ” means services as described in 42 C.F.R. § 482.58 .