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16-21-6-0.1. Contractual Allowances Defined

Sec. 0.1. As used in this chapter, “contractual allowances” means the difference between revenue at established rates and amounts realizable from third party payors under contractual agreements. As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.12.

16-21-6-0.2. Education Related Costs Defined

Sec. 0.2. As used in this chapter, “education related costs” means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing, funding, or otherwise financially supporting educational benefits, services, and programs, including: (1) education of physicians, nurses, technicians, and other medical professionals and health care providers; (2) provision of scholarships and funding to medical schools and other […]

16-21-6-1. Gross Patient Revenue Defined

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, “gross patient revenue” means inpatient and outpatient revenue from services to patients, including payments received from or on behalf of individual patients. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

16-21-6-10. State Health Commissioner; Findings and Recommendations; Report

Sec. 10. Each year the state health commissioner or the commissioner’s designee shall make a compilation of the data obtained from the reports required under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter and report in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 the findings and recommendations to the general assembly not later than December 1 of […]

16-21-6-11. Consumer Guide to Indiana Hospitals

Sec. 11. (a) The state department shall annually publish a consumer guide to Indiana hospitals. The state department shall compile the data for the consumer guide from the relevant data required to be filed under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter and publish the data in an understandable format that assists the consuming public […]

16-21-6-12. Violations

Sec. 12. Any person who is a custodian of confidential data at the state department and who knowingly or intentionally: (1) discloses, distributes, or sells confidential data obtained under this chapter; or (2) identifies a specific patient in violation of section 7 of this chapter; commits a Class B misdemeanor. As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.16.

16-21-6-2. Net Patient Revenue Defined

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, “net patient revenue” means gross patient revenue less deductions for contractual adjustments, bad debts, and charity. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

16-21-6-3. Fiscal Reports; Required Documentation

Sec. 3. (a) Each hospital shall file with the state department a report for the preceding fiscal year within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of the hospital’s fiscal year. The state department shall grant an extension of the time to file the report if the hospital shows good cause for the extension. […]

16-21-6-4. Repealed

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-2(b).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Repealed by P.L.1-2010, SEC.156.

16-21-6-5. Fiscal Reports; Further Verifying Information

Sec. 5. If further fiscal information is necessary to verify the accuracy of any information contained in the reports filed under section 3 of this chapter, the state department may require the facility to produce the records necessary to verify that information. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-2(c).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

16-21-6-6. Patient Information Reports

Sec. 6. In addition to the report filed under section 3 of this chapter, each hospital shall, not more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each calendar quarter, file with the state department, or the state department’s designated contractor, inpatient and outpatient discharge information at the patient level, in a format […]

16-21-6-8. Compliance; Injunctive Relief

Sec. 8. The state department may, through the attorney general, seek to compel compliance with this chapter through injunctive relief. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-4.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

16-21-6-9. Rules; Uniform Reporting System

Sec. 9. (a) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to carry out this chapter. (b) The rules adopted under this section must include rules that establish a uniform system for completing the reports required under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter. (c) The rules adopted under this section must provide […]