California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14169.61

WIC § 14169.61 Effective Sep 18, 2014Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 7 · Art. 5.230

Statute text

(a)(1) Except as provided in this section, all data and other information relating to a hospital that are used for the purposes of this article, including, without limitation, the days data source, shall continue to be used to determine the payments to that hospital, regardless of whether the hospital has undergone one or more changes of ownership.

(2)All supplemental payments to a hospital under this article shall be made to the licensee of a hospital on the date the supplemental payment is made. All quality assurance fee payments under this article shall be paid by the licensee of a hospital on the date the quarterly quality assurance fee payment is due.

(b)The data of separate facilities prior to a consolidation shall be aggregated for the purposes of this article if: (1) a private hospital consolidates with another private hospital, (2) the facilities operate under a consolidated hospital license, (3) data for a period prior to the consolidation is used for purposes of this article, and (4) neither hospital has had a change of ownership on or after the effective date of this article unless paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) has been satisfied by the new owner. Data of a facility that was a separately licensed hospital prior to the consolidation shall not be included in the data, including the days data source, for the purpose of determining payments to the facility or the quality assurance fees due from the facility under the article for any time period during which the facility is closed. A facility shall be deemed to be closed for purposes of this subdivision on the first day of any period during which the facility has no general acute, psychiatric, or rehabilitation inpatients for at least 30 consecutive days. A facility that has been deemed to be closed under this subdivision shall no longer be deemed to be closed on the first subsequent day on which it has general acute, psychiatric, or rehabilitation inpatients.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 442, Sec. 33. (SB 1465) Effective September 18, 2014. Inoperative on date prescribed in Section 14169.72. Repealed on January 1 after inoperative date, pursuant to Section 14169.76. Note: See Section 3.5 of Article XVI of the Constitution, which was added on Nov. 8, 2016, by initiative Proposition 52. This section was added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 657 (SB 239).