To the extent permitted by federal law and other federal requirements, the director shall develop and describe in provider bulletins and on the department‘s Internet Web site a process by which a private general acute care hospital located outside the state that serves Medi-Cal beneficiaries may opt in to pay the quality assurance fee on all applicable categories of patient days and receive supplemental payments for the Medi-Cal program patient days pursuant to Article 5.230 (commencing with Section 14169.50), in the same manner that the hospital could participate if it were located in the state. Notwithstanding Section 14169.51, the department shall rely on reliable data to make reasonable estimates or projections made with respect to the hospital as to the data, including, but not limited to, the days data source, used for the following: acute psychiatric days, annual fee-for-service days, annual managed care days, annual Medi-Cal days, fee-for-service days, general acute care days, high acuity days, managed care days, Medi-Cal days, Medi-Cal fee-for-service days, Medi-Cal managed care days, Medi-Cal managed care fee days, outpatient base amount, and transplant days, used to calculate the fees due and the supplemental payments. The director may modify the procedure set forth in this section to the minimum extent necessary to comply with applicable law, in consultation with the hospital community as defined in Section 14169.51.

(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 657, Sec. 7. (SB 239) Effective October 8, 2013.)