(1) In establishing Title XIX payments for inpatient hospital services: (a) To the extent funds are appropriated specifically for this purpose, and subject to any conditions placed on appropriations made for this purpose, the authority shall provide a disproportionate share hospital adjustment considering the following components: (i) A low-income care component based on a hospital's medicaid utilization rate, its low-income utilization rate, its provision of obstetric services, and other factors authorized by federal law; (ii) A medical indigency care component based on a hospital's services to persons who are medically indigent; and (iii) A state-only component, to be paid from available state funds to hospitals that do not qualify for federal payments under (a)(ii) of this subsection, based on a hospital's services to persons who are medically indigent; (b) The payment methodology for disproportionate share hospitals shall be specified by the authority in regulation. (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed as a right or an entitlement by any hospital to any payment from the authority.
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