Section 17-1739-58 - Classification of acute inpatient facilities(a) For purposes of establishing prospective payment rates, acute inpatient facilities shall be classified into the following four mutually exclusive groups: (1) Classification I - facilities averaging less than two hundred fifty medicaid discharges per year;(2) Classification II - facilities averaging two hundred fifty medicaid discharges per year or more, which do not participate in approved intern and resident teaching programs;(3) Classification III - facilities averaging two hundred fifty medicaid discharges per year or more, which participate in approved intern and resident teaching programs; and(4) Classification IV - The freestanding rehabilitation hospital.(b) If a facility changes classification in accordance with the definitions in subsection (a), rates established under this subchapter shall continue to apply until the department recalculates the rates using new base year data. Facility classification changes shall only be recognized at the time of such rebasing. A facility that adds an approved intern and resident teaching program, however, may seek rate reconsideration under section 17-1739-78(a) (3).Haw. Code R. § 17-1739-58
[Eff 11/13/95] (Auth: HRS § 346-59) (Imp: 42 C.F.R. §447.252 )