Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 29 > Article 6 - Nursing Facility Provider Assessments

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• contiguous: means land that adjoins or touches the other property held by the same or a related organization and land divided by a public road. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fiscal year: means the period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Medicare resident days: means resident days that are funded by the medicare program, a medicare advantage or special needs plan or the medicare hospice program. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• Net patient service revenue: means gross inpatient revenues from services that are provided to nursing facility patients minus reductions from gross inpatient revenue. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• Nursing facility: means a health care institution that provides inpatient beds or resident beds and nursing services to persons who need nursing services on a continuing basis but who do not require hospital care or direct daily care from a physician. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Reductions from gross inpatient revenue: includes bad debts, contractual adjustments, uncompensated care, administrative, courtesy and policy discounts, adjustments and other similar revenue deductions. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• Resident day: means a calendar day of care provided to a nursing facility resident, including the day of admission and excluding the day of discharge. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51
• Upper payment limit: means the limitation established pursuant to 42 C. See Arizona Laws 36-2999.51