27-2-12.36. Equitable reimbursement for services provided at birth
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A. For the purposes of this section:
(1)"birth center" means a freestanding birth center licensed by the state for the primary purpose of performing low-risk deliveries that is not a hospital, attached to a hospital or in a hospital and where births are planned to occur away from the pregnant person's residence following a low-risk pregnancy;
(2)"medicaid" means the medical assistance program established pursuant to Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act and regulations issued pursuant to that act; and
(3)"medicaid recipient" means a person whom the department has determined to be eligible to receive medicaid-related services.
B. The secretary shall adopt rules that:
(1)create a methodology to determine medicaid facility fee reimbursement rates for birth centers that are comparable to rates for similar services provided at a hospital; and
(2)require annual increases to birth center facility fee reimbursement rates that are equivalent to hospital reimbursement rate increases.
History: Laws 2025, ch. 88, § 1.