Georgia’s provider fee bill passed the Senate in January, and in a 147-18 vote last week, the bill passed the House. The current fee is set to expire in June.
The bill will transfer the provider fee levying authority from the legislature to the Georgia Department of Community Health, which runs the state’s Medicaid program. In addition, hospitals will continue to pay 1.45 percent of their net patient revenue in order to gain roughly $450 million in federal matching Medicaid funds, which boost reimbursements to safety-net hospitals that treat more low-income patients.
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