Section 26B-3-511 - Outpatient upper payment limit supplemental payments(1) The department shall administer an outpatient upper payment limit program for private hospitals that supplements the reimbursement to private hospitals in accordance with Subsection (2).(2) The division shall ensure that supplemental payment to Utah private hospitals under Subsection (1): (a) does not exceed the positive upper payment limit gap; and(b) is allocated based on the Medicaid state plan.(3) The department shall use the same outpatient data to allocate the payments under Subsection (2) and to calculate the upper payment limit gap.(4) The supplemental payments to private hospitals under Subsection (1) are payable for outpatient hospital services provided on or after the later of: (b) the effective date of the Medicaid state plan amendment necessary to implement the payments under this section; or(c) the effective date of the coverage provided through the health coverage improvement program waiver.Amended by Chapter 284, 2024 General Session ,§ 20, eff. 5/1/2024.Renumbered from § 26-36b-210 and amended by Chapter 306, 2023 General Session ,§ 95, eff. 5/3/2023.Amended by Chapter 468, 2018 General Session ,§ 13, eff. 5/8/2018.Amended by Chapter 384, 2018 General Session ,§ 14, eff. 5/8/2018.Added by Chapter 279, 2016 General Session ,§ 16, eff. 5/10/2016. Affected by 63I-1-226 on 7/1/2024