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Utah's Medicaid system requires hospitals to pay fees (called "provider assessments") that fund health coverage for low-income patients, and those funds flow through managed care organizations called accountable care organizations (ACOs) back to hospitals as payments for services. This bill updates how those assessments and payments are calculated by adding a new category of "quality incentive" payments — extra funds that ACOs can distribute to hospitals, but only if at least 90% of those funds actually reach the hospitals. It also allows up to $200,000 per year from the Hospital Provider Assessment fund to be used to monitor whether ACOs are properly passing those funds along to hospitals.