AHCCCS Case Study
- CMS approved Arizona’s 2016 GME payments. AHCCCS will release funds within 2 weeks of receiving the non-federal share from our partner, Maricopa Integrated Health Systems (value to Tenet ~$1M).
- AHCCCS set the FY18 hospital assessment at $290M, an increase of $24M over the previous year. The final amount is less than what was originally projected by AHCCCS. Individual hospital amounts will be released later this summer, but Tenet historically pays 13.5% of the assessment, which translates to an additional $3.3M. AHCCCS is keeping the assessment methodology unchanged in FY18 but will make changes for FY19.
- Legislation to address “surprise” out-of-network medical bills (SB1441) has been sent to Governor Doug Ducey for his consideration.
- AHCCCS set the FY18 hospital assessment at $290M, an increase of $24M over the previous year. The final amount is less than what was originally projected by AHCCCS. Individual hospital amounts will be released later this summer, but Tenet historically pays 13.5% of the assessment, which translates to an additional $3.3M. AHCCCS is keeping the assessment methodology unchanged in FY18 but will make changes for FY19.
- Legislation to address “surprise” out-of-network medical bills (SB1441) has been sent to Governor Doug Ducey for his consideration.