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This bill amends Mississippi law to exempt Medicare-certified long-term acute care hospitals from a hospital assessment that is levied on hospitals to fund the Medicaid program, provided that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, approves this exemption. This exemption is added to existing exemptions for hospitals operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and state-operated facilities that exclusively provide inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services. The hospital assessment, which is calculated based on non-Medicare hospital inpatient days, is a mechanism to generate state matching funds to maximize federal reimbursements for healthcare services under the Medicaid program, including programs like Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) and Medicare Upper Payment Limits (UPL).

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https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/history/HB/HB1554.xml