No. HB 4059
Filed under Healthcare.
Compensation for Health Care Services for Inmates in Polk County; Limits compensation to health care provider that provides medical services for inmate housed in Polk County detention center under certain conditions; limits compensation to entity that provides emergency medical transportation services for inmate housed in Polk County detention center if entity does not have contract with county to provide such services.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA health care provider with no contract to treat Polk County jail inmates may not be paid more than 110 percent of the Medicare allowable rate for those services.
A provider without a contract may instead be paid up to 125 percent if it reported a negative operating margin the previous year, backed by hospital-audited financial data filed with the state.
Ground and air ambulance providers without a county contract face the same 110 percent cap for transporting an inmate to or from care.
None of this applies to a hospital Polk County itself operates, and the capped 'health care provider' category excludes abortion clinics and a physician's or dentist's private office.
AIA health care provider without a contract to serve Polk County's detention center may not be compensated more than 110 percent of the Medicare allowable rate for treating an inmate.
AIAn entity providing emergency medical transportation for a Polk County inmate, without a contract with the county to do so, may not be compensated more than 110 percent of the Medicare allowable rate.
AIA non-contracted provider may be paid up to 125 percent of the Medicare rate instead of 110 percent if it reported a negative operating margin the prior year through hospital-audited financial data filed with the state.
AICharges for medical services provided at a hospital that Polk County itself operates are not subject to any of the compensation limits this act creates.
AIThe definition of 'health care provider' subject to these caps does not reach a facility whose primary purpose is performing abortions, or a physician's or dentist's private office.