Connecticut General Statutes 19a-659 – Definitions
As used in sections 19a-644, 19a-649, 19a-670 and 19a-676, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 19a-659
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- 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.
- Office: means the Office of Health Strategy. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental subdivision, agency or public or private organization of any character, but does not include the agency conducting the proceeding. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- Unit: means the Health Systems Planning Unit. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
(1) “Unit” means the Health Systems Planning Unit within the Office of Health Strategy, established under section 19a-612;
(2) “Hospital” means any hospital licensed as a short-term acute care general or children’s hospital by the Department of Public Health, including John Dempsey Hospital of The University of Connecticut Health Center;
(3) “Fiscal year” means the hospital fiscal year consisting of a twelve-month period commencing on October first and ending the following September thirtieth;
(4) “Affiliate” means a person, entity or organization controlling, controlled by, or under common control with another person, entity or organization;
(5) “Uncompensated care” means the total amount of charity care and bad debts determined by using the hospital’s published charges and consistent with the hospital’s policies regarding charity care and bad debts which are on file at the unit;
(6) “Medical assistance” means (A) the programs for medical assistance provided under the Medicaid program, including HUSKY A, or (B) any other state-funded medical assistance program, including HUSKY B;
(7) “CHAMPUS” or “TriCare” means the federal Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services, as defined in 10 USC 1072(4), as from time to time amended;
(8) “Primary payer” means the payer responsible for the highest percentage of the charges for a patient’s inpatient or outpatient hospital services;
(9) “Case mix index” means the arithmetic mean of the Medicare diagnosis related group case weights assigned to each inpatient discharge for a specific hospital during a given fiscal year. The case mix index shall be calculated by dividing the hospital’s total case mix adjusted discharges by the hospital’s actual number of discharges for the fiscal year. The total case mix adjusted discharges shall be calculated by (A) multiplying the number of discharges in each diagnosis-related group by the Medicare weights in effect for that same diagnosis-related group and fiscal year, and (B) then totaling the resulting products for all diagnosis-related groups;
(10) “Contractual allowances” means the difference between hospital published charges and payments generated by negotiated agreements for a different or discounted rate or method of payment;
(11) “Medical assistance underpayment” means the amount calculated by dividing the total net revenue by the total gross revenue, and then multiplying the quotient by the total medical assistance charges, and then subtracting medical assistance payments from the product;
(12) “Other allowances” means the amount of any difference between charges for employee self-insurance and related expenses determined using the hospital’s overall relationship of costs to charges;
(13) “Gross revenue” means the total gross patient charges for all patient services provided by a hospital; and
(14) “Net revenue” means total gross revenue less contractual allowance, less the difference between government charges and government payments, less uncompensated care and other allowances.