§ 31-8-34. Maintenance of Records; Certification of Cost of Care; Determination of Amount of Fund
Each hospital shall maintain accurate records of its cost of care for providing health care services for nonresident indigent patients. As soon as practicable after the close of each quarter of each fiscal year and within not more than 30 days after the close thereof, the chief administrative officer of each hospital shall certify to […]
§ 31-8-35. Payments From Fund to Hospitals
For each fiscal year, beginning with the 1980-81 fiscal year, payments to hospitals for cost of care of nonresident indigent patients shall be made from the fund. Beginning with the certifications made after the close of the first quarter of the 1980-81 fiscal year, the quarterly certifications of cost of care for nonresident indigent patients […]
§ 31-8-36. State Appropriations to Fund
For each fiscal year, beginning with the 1980-81 fiscal year, the commissioner shall make a request for appropriation of the amount determined under Code Section 31-8-34 as the state-wide cost of care for nonresident indigent patients in the budget of the Department of Community Health under the category: “Nonresident Indigent Health Care Fund.” The budget […]
§ 31-8-37. Compliance With This Article Contingent Upon Appropriation
On and after July 1, 1987, hospitals shall not be required to comply with the provisions of this article unless the General Assembly appropriates funds in an amount determined as the state-wide cost of care for nonresident indigent patients as provided for in Code Section 31-8-36. History. Code 1981, § 31-8-37 , enacted by Ga. […]
§ 31-8-30. Findings; Purpose of Article
The General Assembly finds that there is an inequitable distribution of the public costs incurred in providing health care for indigent persons who receive such care outside their counties of residence. The publicly supported hospitals providing such health care are frequently not reimbursed for the costs thereby incurred, which either increases the tax burden of […]
§ 31-8-31. Definitions
As used in this article, the term: “Area of operation” shall, for the purpose of hospital authorities, have the same meaning as defined in paragraph (1) of Code Section 31-7-71 and, for purposes of all other hospitals, shall be the county in which the hospital is located. “Cost of care” means the cost of services […]
§ 31-8-32. Determination of Indigency
The commissioner of community health shall adopt state-wide standards to determine indigency for the purposes of this article. To the extent practicable, such standards shall be based on similar standards adopted for the purpose of determining the ability to pay of patients receiving services in state hospitals as authorized by state law, as now or […]
§ 31-8-33. Creation of Fund
There is created the Nonresident Indigent Health Care Fund for the purpose of making payments therefrom to hospitals to reimburse such hospitals for the cost of care of nonresident indigent patients. Such fund shall be made up of appropriations made thereto by the General Assembly, as provided in this article. History. Code 1933, § 88-2304a, […]