SB 1562 Virginia Senate · 2017 Regular Session

Medicaid Supplemental Rate Fund; created.

Summary
Creates the Medicaid Supplemental Rate Fund (the Fund) as a subfund of the Virginia Health Care Fund. Moneys in the Fund will be used to raise base Medicaid reimbursement rates for hospitals and health care providers in the Commonwealth. The bill requires nonprofit hospitals with over $300 million in annual revenues to pay state and local sales and use taxes, and such sales tax revenues will be deposited into the Fund. Nonprofit hospitals are currently exempt from paying state and local sales and use tax.
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Jan 2017
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Introduced Jan 20, 2017 Last action Jan 20, 2017
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Jan 20, 2017
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Referred to Committee on Finance
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Jan 20, 2017
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 17103793D
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P
SD
Siobhan Dunnavant
RRepublican
VA
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