Rhode Island General Laws Title 40. Human Services § 40-8.3-7. Outpatient adjustment payments for fiscal year 2010

(1) Determine the percent of the state's total Medicaid outpatient and emergency department services (exclusive of physician services) provided by each hospital during the hospital's fiscal year ending during 2008;

(2) Determine the sum of all Medicaid payments to hospitals made for outpatient and emergency department services (exclusive of physician services) provided during each hospital's fiscal year ending during 2008;

(3) Multiply the sum of all Medicaid payments as determined in subsection (a)(2) by seventy-seven and forty-one hundredths percent (77.41%) and then multiply that result by each hospital's percentage of the state's total Medicaid outpatient and emergency department services as determined in subsection (a)(1) to obtain the total outpatient adjustment for each hospital to be paid in SFY 2010;

(4) Pay each hospital on or about July 20, 2009, October 20, 2009, January 20, 2010, and April 20, 2010, one-quarter (.25) of its total outpatient adjustment as determined in subsection (a)(3).