Concerning payment to acute care hospitals for difficult to discharge medicaid patients.

The bill was formally amended from its original version to a substitute version, reflecting its progression through the legislative process. The primary substantive change involves a technical reorganization of the text within Section 1, specifically renumbering and restructuring subsections (b) through (h) to improve clarity and readability. No new policy requirements, funding amounts, eligibility criteria, or effective dates were added or removed; the core intent to pay hospitals for difficult-to-discharge Medicaid patients remains unchanged.