Bill Information - History

An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for additional services for eligible persons other than the medically needy; providing for payments for readmissions to a hospital paid through diagnosis-related groups and for maximum payment to practitioners for inpatient hospitalization; further providing for time periods; providing for hospital assessments; further providing for third-party liability and for data matching; and providing for Federal law recovery of medical assistance reimbursement.