For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) “Bad debt charges” means deductions from revenue for bad debt.

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(b) “Charity care charges” means deductions from revenue for charity care.

(c) “Contract Hospital” means a nondesignated public hospital, which has a Medi-Cal fee-for-service contract negotiated by the California Medical Assistance Commission in effect as of December 31 of the applicable state fiscal year.

(d) “Contract Hospital allocation” means the portion of the Nondesignated Public Hospital IGT Pool that is allocated to and transferred to the state by the transferring entity on behalf of the contract hospitals.

(e) “Converted hospital” means a private hospital that becomes a designated public hospital or a nondesignated public hospital on or after July 1 of any state fiscal year, a nondesignated public hospital that becomes a private hospital or a designated public hospital on or after July 1 of any state fiscal year, or a designated public hospital that becomes a private hospital or a nondesignated public hospital on or after July 1 of any state fiscal year. A hospital shall be considered a converted hospital only for the fiscal year during which it became a converted hospital.

(f) “Intergovernmental transfer (IGT)” means the transfer of public funds by the public entity to the state in accordance with the requirements of this section.

(g) “Intergovernmental transfer allocation” or “IGT allocation” means the amount of the Nondesignated Public Hospital IGT Pool allocated to a nondesignated public hospital for a state fiscal year. Each transferring entity may agree to transfer its IGT allocation to the state in order to participate in the Nondesignated Public Hospital Intergovernmental Transfer Program in accordance with this section and Section 14164.

(h) “Intergovernmental transfer formula group” or “IGT formula group” means any of the following groups:

(1) Contract Hospitals that have an IGT Formula Score of between seven and nine, inclusive.

(2) Contract Hospitals that have an IGT Formula Score of between four and six, inclusive.

(3) Contract Hospitals that have an IGT Formula Score of between one and three, inclusive.

(4) Non-Contract Hospitals that have an IGT Formula Score of between seven and nine, inclusive.

(5) Non-Contract Hospitals that have an IGT Formula Score of between four and six, inclusive.

(6) Non-Contract Hospitals that have an IGT Formula Score of between one and three, inclusive.

(i) “New nondesignated hospital” means a hospital that was not in operation under current or prior ownership as a nondesignated public hospital for any portion of the calendar year prior to July 1 of any state fiscal year. A hospital shall be considered a new hospital only for the fiscal year during which it began operating.

(j) “Non-Contract Hospital” means a nondesignated public hospital, which does not have a Medi-Cal fee-for-service contract negotiated by the California Medical Assistance Commission in effect as of December 31 of the applicable state fiscal year.

(k) “Non-Contract Hospital allocation” means the portion of the Nondesignated Public Hospital IGT Pool that is allocated to and transferred to the state by the transferring entity on behalf of the Non-Contract Hospitals.

(l) “Nondesignated public hospital” means either of the following:

(1) A public hospital that is licensed under subdivision (a) of § 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, is not designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s latest annual Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) financial disclosure report for the hospital, and satisfies the definition in paragraph (25) of subdivision (a) of Section 14105.98, excluding designated public hospitals, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 14166.1 as that section may be amended from time to time.

(2) A tax-exempt nonprofit hospital that is licensed under subdivision (a) of § 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, is not designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s latest annual OSHPD financial disclosure report, is a hospital operated, owned, or both by a local health care district, and is affiliated with the health care district hospital owner by means of the district’s status as the nonprofit corporation‘s sole corporate member.

(m) “Nondesignated Public Hospital Intergovernmental Transfer Pool” or “Nondesignated Public Hospital IGT Pool” means the pool of funds that will be utilized as the state’s share of the aggregate payments funded by the transferring entity’s intergovernmental transfers for a state fiscal year. This amount shall be calculated based on the room under the federal Upper Payment Limit (UPL) in the category of Non-State Government Owned Hospitals (Inpatient) which the department has determined is both attributable to the nondesignated public hospitals and available for the purposes of this article as determined by the department pursuant to Section 14165.56.

(n) “Public entity” means the transferring entity, which may be a city, county, special purpose district, or other governmental unit in the state, regardless of whether the unit of government is also a health care provider, except as prohibited by federal law.

(o) “Transferring entity” means a public entity that transfers public funds to the state in accordance with subdivision (f) of Section 14165.57 and is a public entity as defined in subdivision (n).

(p) “Upper payment limit” or “UPL” means the federal upper payment limit category as defined in Sections 447.272 and 447.321 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations for the amount of the Medicaid payments for which federal financial participation is available for a class of service and a class of health care providers.

(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 20, Sec. 2. (AB 113) Effective April 13, 2011.)