CT Gen Stat § 19a-631. (Formerly Sec. 19a-148a) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368z - Health Systems Planning Unit|Section 19a-631. (Formerly Sec. 19a-148a) - Assessments of hospitals for expenses of the unit.

 (a) As used in this section, section 19a-632 and section 19a-632a, “hospital” means each hospital subject to the provisions of this chapter and licensed as a short-term acute-care general hospital or a children's hospital or both by the Department of Public Health.(b) Each hospital shall annually pay to the executive director of the Office of Health Strategy, for deposit in the General Fund, an amount equal to its share of the actual expenditures made by the unit during each fiscal year including the cost of fringe benefits for unit personnel as estimated by the Comptroller, the amount of expenses for central state services attributable to the unit for the fiscal year as estimated by the Comptroller, plus the expenditures made on behalf of the unit from the Capital Equipment Purchase Fund pursuant to section 4a-9 for such year. Payments shall be made by assessment of all hospitals of the costs calculated and collected in accordance with the provisions of this section and section 19a-632. If for any reason a hospital ceases operation, any unpaid assessment for the operations of the unit shall be reapportioned among the remaining hospitals to be paid in addition to any other assessment.(P.A. 93-229, S. 18, 21; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 42, 58; P.A. 98-22, S. 1, 3; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 6; P.A. 11-242, S. 88; P.A. 18-91, S. 19.)History: P.A. 93-229 effective June 4, 1993; P.A. 93-381 and 93-435 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of public health and addiction services for commissioner and department of health services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and “commission” with “office”, qualified expenditures made by the office as those which are accountable to the functions of the office transferred from the Commission on Hospitals and Health Care, and deleted reference to a fiscal year 1993 share, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-148a transferred to Sec. 19a-631 in 1997; P.A. 98-22 amended Subsec. (b) to require payment to the Commissioner of Health Care Access rather than Commissioner of Public Health, deleted reference to expenditures “which are accountable to the functions of the office transferred from the Commission on Hospitals and Health Care” and added provision re reapportionment of payments when a hospital ceases operation, effective July 1, 1998; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (b) by substituting Commissioner of Public Health for Commissioner of Health Care Access, effective October 6, 2009; P.A. 11-242 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to Sec. 19a-632a, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 18-91 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “Commissioner of Public Health” with “executive director of the Office of Health Strategy” and “office” with “unit”, effective May 14, 2018.Annotation to former section 19a-148a:Cited. 235 C. 128.