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Collin County approves higher hospital assessment to unlock federal Medicaid funds
Summary
Collin County Commissioners Court voted to raise the mandatory payment rate for the Local Provider Participation Program from 3.5% to 6% for FY2025, allowing private hospitals to leverage federal reimbursements for care of low-income and uninsured patients.
Collin County Commissioners Court voted to amend the FY2025 Local Provider Participation Program (LPP), increasing the mandatory payment rate hospitals must pay on annual net patient revenue from 3.5% to 6%, a move county staff said will allow private hospitals to draw additional federal Medicaid reimbursements.
The change was approved after a public hearing in which hospital consultants and local hospital representatives described the LPP as a financing mechanism that uses hospital contributions — not county general revenue — to unlock federal funds that reimburse…
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