Texas Health and Safety Code 311.0455 – Annual Report by the Department
(a) The department shall submit to the attorney general and comptroller not later than July 1 of each year a report listing each nonprofit hospital or hospital system that did not meet the requirements of § 311.045 during the preceding fiscal year.
(b) The department shall submit to the attorney general and the comptroller not later than November 1 of each year a report containing the following information for each nonprofit hospital or hospital system during the preceding fiscal year:
(1) the amount of charity care, as defined by § 311.031, provided;
(2) the amount of government-sponsored indigent health care, as defined by § 311.031, provided;
(3) the amount of community benefits, as defined by § 311.042, provided;
(4) the amount of net patient revenue, as defined by § 311.042, and the amount constituting four percent of net patient revenue;
(5) the dollar amount of the hospital’s or hospital system’s charity care and community benefits requirements met;
(6) a computation of the percentage by which the amount described by Subdivision (5) is above or below the dollar amount of the hospital’s or hospital system’s charity care and community benefits requirements;
(7) the amount of tax-exempt benefits, as defined by § 311.042, provided, if the hospital is required to report tax-exempt benefits under § 311.045(b)(1)(A) or (b)(1)(B); and
(8) the amount of charity care expenses reported in the hospital’s or hospital system’s audited financial statement.
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 311.0455
- 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.
- Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- 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.
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The department shall make the report required by Subsection (b) available to the public and shall issue a press release concerning the availability of the report.
(d) For purposes of Subsection (b), “nonprofit hospital” includes the following if the hospital is not located in a county with a population under 50,000 where the entire county or the population of the entire county has been designated as a Health Professionals Shortage Area:
(1) a Medicaid disproportionate share hospital; or
(2) a public hospital that is owned or operated by a political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state, including a hospital district or authority.