CT HB05372

Commissioner of Social Services shall provide Medicaid funding for beds reserved for up to fifteen days at chronic disease hospitals for patients temporarily transferred to acute care hospitals.

Eligible chronic disease hospitals must have a census of more than fifty percent Medicaid-funded patients at the time of patient transfer.

Commissioner shall prescribe additional requirements for chronic disease hospitals to receive reserved bed payment, including evidence that transferred patients can return within fifteen days of acute care admission.

Legislation becomes effective July 1, 2024.