Existing law requires the board of county commissioners of each county to: (1) create a fund in the county treasury for medical assistance to indigent persons; and (2) impose a property tax and deposit the proceeds from the tax into the fund. (NRS 428.275, 428.285) Existing law requires counties to use the money in the fund to provide certain medical assistance to indigent persons or, in a county whose population is 100,000 or more (currently Clark and Washoe Counties), to provide supplemental payments under an upper limit payment program established in the State Plan for Medicaid to certain county hospitals. (NRS 428.295) This bill additionally authorizes the board of county commissioners in a county whose population is 100,000 or more to allocate money from the fund, if authorized under any other supplemental payment program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to: (1) provide an enhanced rate of reimbursement to any public hospital in the county for hospital care that is provided to recipients of Medicaid; or (2) make supplemental payments to any public hospital in the county for the provision of such hospital care through increased federal financial participation.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 428.295
Reprint 1: 428.295
As Enrolled: 428.295
BDR: 428.295