Kansas rural hospitals will get $83 million Medicaid boost

Struggling rural hospitals in Kansas are receiving an $83 million injection from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Gov. Laura Kelly and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday that CMS has approved the state’s plan to fund critical access hospitals and rural emergency hospitals through the Health Care Access Improvement Program. HCAIP puts an assessment on Kansas hospitals, and the revenue generated is matched with federal Medicaid funds and then returned to the hospitals in the form of higher reimbursement rates.
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