For Medicaid reimbursement of inpatient hospital discharges, Capital payments shall be per-discharge add-on payments that apply to in-District general hospitals only.
For discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2014, capital add-ons shall be limited to one hundred percent (100%) of the District average capital cost per Medicaid patient day. This payment shall be calculated based on submitted cost reports for in-District general hospitals for the base year.
The average cost per patient day shall be calculated by dividing total Medicaid capital cost for all eligible hospitals by the total number of Medicaid days for those hospitals, as reported on the hospital cost reports.
The per-day amount shall be converted to a per discharge amount for each hospital, based on Medicaid utilization information in the cost report.
Effective October 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the capital cost add-on payment shall be calculated by dividing the sum of Medicaid capital costs applicable to inpatient routine services costs, as reported in the cost report, and capital costs applicable to inpatient ancillary services, as determined in Subsection 4807.6, by the number of Medicaid discharges in the base year.
Capital costs applicable to inpatient ancillary services shall be allocated to inpatient capital by applying the facility's ratio of ancillary inpatient charges to total ancillary charges for each ancillary line on the cost report.
For discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the capital cost add-on payment for each in-District general hospital shall be based on costs from each hospital's submitted cost report for the hospital's fiscal year that ends prior to October 1 of the prior calendar year.
If after an audit of the hospital's cost report for the base year period an adjustment is made to the hospital's reported costs which results in an increase or decrease of five percent (5%) or greater of the capital cost add-on payment, the add-on payment for capital costs shall be adjusted, subject to District-wide limits.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 29, r. 29-4807