This amendment eliminates language and continues the current practice reducing emergency room (ER) physician fees for non-emergency visits to hospitals in the Medicaid fee-for-service program, resulting in savings of $430,000 each year in the general fund and a like amount of federal Medicaid matching funds. The program was put in place in the early 1990s to incentivize emergency rooms to triage and divert non-emergency patients to more appropriate and cost-effective settings. The introduced budget added language to eliminate this practice of reducing payments for ER physician claims in the Medicaid fee-for-service program only. It did not require the elimination of this policy in the Medicaid managed care program.