Penn Highlands Tyrone – Blair County – Tobacco Settlement Payment Data Year 2027

The Tobacco Settlement Act mandates payments to hospitals like Penn Highlands Tyrone for uncompensated care services provided to uninsured patients. Hospitals can receive payments using two methods: the uncompensated care or extraordinary expense approach. The extraordinary expense approach is for claims that exceed double the average cost of all inpatient claims at the facility. An independent audit was performed to verify the eligibility of Penn Highlands Tyrone’s claims, and it was found that they had one potentially eligible extraordinary expense claim for the 2027 Tobacco Settlement Payment. Adjustments to the facility’s claim data are necessary to ensure eligibility. This is an automated summary. Please rely on the contents included in the released audit report.