471 NAC 46-018. RATE-SETTING FOLLOWING A HOSPITAL MERGER

018. RATE-SETTING FOLLOWING A HOSPITAL MERGER. Hospitals that have combined into a single entity shall be assigned a single combined weighted average for each of the following: direct medical education (DME) amount, if applicable, indirect medical education (IME) amount, if applicable, cost-to-charge ratio (CCR), outpatient percentage, capital amount, and any other applicable rates or add-ons. The weights shall equal each hospital's base year Nebraska Medicaid discharges as a proportion of total Nebraska Medicaid discharges for the merged hospitals and shall be applied to the current fiscal year rates which were calculated for each hospital.