56-1409. MULTIHOSPITAL LOCATIONS, HOSPITAL CLOSURE AND NEW HOSPITALS. (1) If a hospital conducts, operates or maintains more than one (1) hospital licensed by the department, the hospital shall pay the assessment for each hospital separately.

(2) A hospital, subject to assessments under this chapter, that ceases to conduct hospital operations or maintain its state license or did not conduct hospital operations throughout a calendar or fiscal year, shall have its required assessment adjusted by multiplying the assessment computed under section 56-1404, Idaho Code, by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the year during which the hospital conducts hospital business, operates a hospital and maintains licensure, and the denominator of which is three hundred sixty-five (365). The hospital shall pay the required assessment computed under section 56-1404, Idaho Code, on the date and in pro rata installments as required by the department for that portion of the state fiscal year during which the hospital operated and maintained state licensure, to the extent not previously paid.

(3) A hospital, subject to assessments under this chapter, that has not been previously licensed as a hospital by the department and that commences hospital operations during a fiscal year, shall pay the required assessment computed under section 56-1404, Idaho Code, and shall be eligible for payment adjustments under section 56-1406, Idaho Code, only after two (2) complete state fiscal years have elapsed and two (2) full fiscal year medicare cost reports are filed with the center for medicare and medicaid services (CMS) after the commencement of operations and on the date as required by the department beginning on the first day of the next state fiscal year.

History:

[56-1409, added 2008, ch. 91, sec. 1, p. 256.]