HAR §17-1739-70. Payment for transfers

(a) A hospital inpatient shall be considered "transferred" when the patient has been moved from one acute inpatient facility to another acute inpatient facility. (b) A hospital which receives a transfer and subsequently discharges that individual shall be considered the discharging hospital. All other hospitals which admitted and subsequently transferred the patient during a single spell of illness shall be considered transferring hospitals. (c) The service category into which the patient falls at the time of transfer or discharge shall be considered the appropriate service category for purposes of payment to that facility. (d) If a classification I facility or the freestanding rehabilitation hospital transfers an inpatient to another classification I facility or the freestanding rehabilitation hospital, both facilities shall receive the per diem rates calculated in section 17-1739-66. (e) If a classification I facility or the freestanding rehabilitation hospital transfers an inpatient to a classification II or III facility, the classification I facility shall receive the per diem rate calculated in section 17-1739-66, and the classification II or III facility shall receive the full per diem and ancillary reimbursement rate to which it is entitled under section 17-1739-66. (f) If a classification II or III facility transfers an inpatient to another acute inpatient facility, payment shall be as follows: (1) In nonpsychiatric cases where medical necessity requires that the patient remain in the transferring hospital three or more days or that the patient be cared for in the intensive care or coronary care units, the transferring classification II or III facility shall receive the full per diem rate for routine care and the full ancillary discharge rate for the appropriate service category, as calculated in accordance with section 17-1739-66; UNOFFICIAL 1739-24 (2) For nonpsychiatric cases of less than three days and not involving intensive care, payment to a transferring classification II or III facility shall be the facility- specific per diem rate for routine care and thirty per cent of the ancillary discharge rate for the appropriate service category, as calculated in accordance with section 17-1739-66; (3) For nonpsychiatric services, payment to a discharging classification II or III facility shall be the full prospective payment rates calculated in section 17-1739-66; (4) For nonpsychiatric services, payment to a discharging classification I facility or the freestanding rehabilitation facility shall be determined by multiplying the number of days of stay in the discharging facility by the per diem calculated in section 17-1739-66; and (5) For psychiatric services, payment to any transferring or discharging facility shall be determined by multiplying the number of days of stay by the per diem calculated in section 17-1739-66. (g) Transfers shall be subject to utilization review, and the department or its utilization review agent may deny full or partial payment to the transferring facility if it is determined that the transferring facility was able to provide all required care or that a patient was held three days or more or placed in intensive care when it was not medically necessary. (h) For the purpose of determining capital related costs associated with transfers, all days and charges associated with services rendered by each facility to the transferred patient shall be included in that facility's computation. [Eff 11/13/95 ] (Auth: HRS §346-59) (Imp: 42 C.F.R. §447.252)