Vetoed by Governor Tate Reeves

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that specifies new conditions for long-term care hospitals in Harrison County to allow participation in Medicaid in Mississippi.

Highlights:

• Specifies new conditions for long-term care hospitals in Harrison County to allow participation in Medicaid in Mississippi (Sec. 1).

• Reduces barriers to make it easier for medical facilities to make capital improvements (Sec. 1).

• Requires the state’s only academic medical center to seek state approval before opening educational facilities outside of Jackson (Sec. 1).

• Requires that the Mississippi State Department of Health study dialysis and geriatric psychiatric units in small hospitals, and uncompensated care rates in psychiatric hospitals (Sec. 1).

• Limits the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s (UMMC) certificate of need exemption to the area around UMMC’s main campus and the Jackson Medical Mall (Sec. 1).

• Amends and expedites the application process by ordering the Mississippi Supreme Court to appoint a special chancery judge to hear appeals and return a final decision within 120 days (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor and apply retroactively to July 1, 2023 (Sec. 2).

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