Section 148.448  Trauma Care Payments

a)         Qualifying criteria.  With the exception of a large public hospital, a hospital qualifies for this payment if the hospital is one of the following:

1)         A general acute care hospital that, as of July 1, 2007, was designated by IDPH as a trauma center.

2)         A children's hospital, located in a contiguous state, that has been designated a trauma hospital by that State providing more than 8,000 Illinois Medicaid days.

b)         Payment.  A hospital shall receive an annual payment that is the sum of the following amounts for which it qualifies:

1)         The product of the hospital's Medicaid inpatient general acute care days and $400, for a general acute care hospital designated as a Level II trauma center as identified in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 148.295(a)(3) and (a)(4).

2)         The product of the amount of the State fiscal year 2005 Medicaid capital payments and the factor of 3.75, for a general acute care hospital designated as a trauma center as identified in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 148.295(a).

3)         The product of the hospital's Medicaid general acute care inpatient days and $235, for a hospital that qualifies under (a)(2) of this Section

(Source:  Added by peremptory rulemaking at 33 Ill. Reg. 1538, effective December 30, 2008)