(a) Medicaid shall account for those federal funds derived from certified public expenditures by publicly and state-owned hospitals as those funds are received by Medicaid from the federal government.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-26B-78
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) The certified public expenditure accounting shall be separate and distinct from the state General Fund appropriation accounting.(c) Federal moneys accounted for shall not be used to replace other state General Fund revenues appropriated and funded by the Legislature or other revenues used to support Medicaid.(d) The moneys obtained by Medicaid from hospital certified public expenditure certifications shall be used only as follows:
(1) To make disproportionate share hospital payments under this article;(2) To reimburse moneys collected by the department through error or mistake under this article; or(3) For any other permissible purpose allowed under Title XIX of the Social Security Act.
