(a) There is assigned and made available to each county in Arkansas the following quotas of medical services, including hospitalization, at the University of Arkansas Medical Center, herein referred to as the State Medical Center, to be utilized by the citizens of the respective counties and the municipalities therein according to the provisions of §§ 6-64-502, 6-64-504, 6-64-506, and 6-64-508.
(b) The quotas shall be computed as follows:
(1) Hospital Quota.
(A) Annually, on or before July 1, the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas shall certify to the Chancellor for Health Sciences of the University of Arkansas the total number of hospital beds estimated to be available for use, based upon funds available, during the next twelve-month period at the State Medical Center.
(B) The chancellor shall then multiply the total available beds so certified by three hundred sixty-five (365), the days in the year, and multiply the result thereof by eighty-five percent (85%), which is determined by the General Assembly as being the average normal occupancy of hospital beds to be expected by a hospital of this type. The result of such calculations shall be the net annual patient-day usage of the State Medical Center for the next twelve (12) months.
(C) The chancellor shall then prorate the net annual patient-day usage of the State Medical Center among the counties of this state in proportion to each county that the population of such county bears to the total population of all the counties of this state according to the most recent federal census figures available at the time of the annual calculation of the quota. The pro rata apportionment shall be the annual quota of hospital usage at the State Medical Center for each county;
(2) Quotas of Cities of Over 10,000 Population. Each city of this state having a population of over ten thousand (10,000) according to the most recent federal census figures available at the time of figuring annual quotas under this subchapter shall be assigned an annual proportionate quota of hospital usage assigned to the county in which any such city is located, which city quota shall be computed in the proportion that the population of the city bears to the population of the county. The quotas assigned to any city of over ten thousand (10,000) population of hospital usage at the State Medical Center shall be deducted from the quota assigned to the county in which the city is located.
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