KRS 205.615: Use of allowable Medicaid funding for trauma care costs.

It shall be a priority of the Department for Medicaid Services to use any additional

funding allocated to the Medicaid program to provide annual supplemental payments to

increase the percentage of cost covered by Medicaid reimbursement with the goal of

covering full allowable costs for covered services provided to Medicaid patients by acute

care hospitals that are verified as trauma centers under KRS 211.490 to 211.496 and to

physicians who provide care to patients presenting in an emergency room of a verif ied

trauma center.