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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 261 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 16 - v.i. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation|Subchapter III - Hospital Accounts; Procurement of Gifts, Grants and Loans|§ 261. Hospital Accounts

 (a) Each District Board shall establish and maintain separate bank accounts and may make direct fiscal disbursement from such accounts to pay all necessary costs and obligations. Revenues generated by each hospital and health facility under its jurisdiction shall be deposited in its account. The disbursements shall be made by the District Boards pursuant to regulations issued by the Corporation. (b) Notwithstanding the establishment of separate bank accounts under this section, the Department of Finance shall continue to be responsible for the payrolls of the Governor Juan F. Luis and Roy L. Schneider Hospitals subject to the appropriation and allotment process. (c) All deposits and disbursements from the accounts created herein shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Virgin Islands Code regarding the deposit and disbursement of funds from government bank accounts.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 262 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 16 - v.i. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation|Subchapter III - Hospital Accounts; Procurement of Gifts, Grants and Loans|§ 262. Procurement of gifts, grants and loans

 The Board of Directors may secure gifts for and loans to the District Boards from private individuals, foundations and federal government agencies and may use such gifts, grants and loans for any lawful purpose specified by the donor or lender.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 271 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 271. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires— “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Health of the Virgin Islands. “Medical care” means medical, surgical, dental and nursing services, and other remedial services recognized by law, in the home, office, hospital, clinic and any other suitable place, provided or prescribed by persons permitted or authorized by law to give such services, including drugs and medical supplies, appliances, laboratory, diagnostic and therapeutic services, nursing home and convalescent care and such other medical services, equipment, devices and supplies as may be prescribed by such persons.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 272 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 272. Schedule of fees for medical care

 (a) A schedule of fees for medical care provided by the Department of Health shall be established by the Commissioner, subject to approval by the Governor. Such fees shall be based upon actual costs of services rendered and medical supplies used in the treatment of patients, and shall be arrived at by methods consistent with criteria prescribed in such regulations as the Federal Government may prescribe in implementation of Title XIX of the Social Security Act. (b) The schedule of fees shall be amended or revised from time to time by the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, whenever the costs of services and/or medical supplies may so warrant. (c) Such schedule of fees, or amendments or revisions thereof, shall be submitted to the Legislature at a regular or special session and if not disapproved by the Legislature within thirty (30) days from the date submitted, such schedule, amendment or revision shall become effective. (d) The schedule of fees and all amendments and revisions thereof, shall be printed and shall be available to the public.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 273 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 273. Payment required

 All persons except those entitled to full or partial medical care under the provisions of this chapter shall be required to pay full fees for medical care on a current basis and in accordance with the schedule of fees.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 274 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 274. Regulations for credit facilities

 (a) Subject to the approval of the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation, the Hospital Administrator shall provide by regulation for the extending of credit facilities to persons required to pay the full or partial costs of medical care. Such regulations shall include provisions as to the deposit and monthly installments required of such persons. (b) Subject to the approval of the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation, the Hospital Administrator shall provide by regulation for the payment by major credit cards of medical services and care rendered by Government hospitals and clinics.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 275 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 275. Disposal of fees

 All fees, collected under the provisions of this chapter, shall be remitted to the Commissioner of Finance and covered into the Treasury of the Virgin Islands in the special fund designated “The Health Revolving Fund”, provided for by section 3017 of Title 33.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 276 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 276. Exemptions

 (a) Subject to approval by the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation, the Hospital Administrator may exempt wards of the Government and persons suffering from chronic and communicable diseases specified by the Hospital Administrator, the control and care of which is deemed to be in the public interest, from the payment of fees for medical care provided by the Department of Health. (b) The Hospital Administrator shall provide: (1) free emergency ambulance service shall be provided to all veterans residing in the Virgin Islands; and (2) free out-patient medical care for veterans who have a service-connected disability. For the purposes of this subsection “veteran” means a person who served in the active military, naval or air service of the United States and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 277 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 277. Ability to pay

 (a) No resident of the Virgin Islands shall be denied medical care because of financial inability to pay the cost thereof. (b) Subject to approval by the Governor, the Commissioner with the advice of the Commissioner of Human Services shall establish reasonable standards for determining the ability of persons or families seeking medical care at public expense to pay for such care. The Commissioner of Human Services shall through equitable application of the standards determine the extent, if any, to which such persons may be able to pay the costs of necessary medical care and shall so certify to the Commissioner. Such certification shall identify the individuals or families whose medical care may appropriately be claimed for Federal financial participation under the provisions of Title XIX of the Social Security Act, or any amendments thereof. (c) Any person aggrieved by a determination made pursuant to subsection (b) of this section as to his eligibility for medical assistance, or as to scope and/or quality of medical care and services to which he is entitled, or whose claim for such medical assistance is not determined with reasonable dispatch, shall be afforded a fair hearing by a board of appeals as provided for herein. An appeal shall be taken from a determination within 15 days from the date of the same and in all cases where unreasonable delay is alleged by filing a notice of appeal in writing with the Board of Appeals for Medical Assistance for the island or islands involved as provided for in section 284 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 278 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 278. Medical care for needy; Federal aid

 The Department of Human Services, in addition to its other powers and duties shall establish and administer a program of medical care to individuals and families whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the cost of the necessary medical care. Under such a program, the Department shall— (1) prepare a plan and related procedures necessary to assure Federal financial participation under Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act and any laws amendatory thereto that may hereafter be enacted; (2) provide such methods of administration as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan; (3) receive and expend all funds made available to the Department by the Federal Government and from any other sources for the implementation of the plan; (4) cooperate with the Federal Government through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending and approving services under this plan; (5) make such statistical and financial reports in such form and containing such information as the Federal Government may from time to time require and comply with such provisions as the Federal Government may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 279 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 279. Rules and regulations

 In addition to the regulations authorized elsewhere in this chapter and subject to approval by the Governor, the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation shall adopt and from time to time amend, all such other reasonable rules and regulations, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, as may be necessary for the efficient and orderly administration and implementation of the same.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 280 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 280. Donations, gifts and bequests

 The Hospital Administrator or Medical Director may accept, deposit and disburse gifts, donations, contributions and bequests to the hospitals and clinics of the Virgin Islands to be utilized or expended by the Hospital Administrator or Medical Director, subject, to the approval of the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation, for the purposes designated by the donor thereof. Such funds shall be deposited in a special account in a bank to be selected by the Commissioner of Finance and funds shall be withdrawn on the joint signatures of the Hospital Administrator or Medical Director and the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation. Such donations, gifts and bequests shall be in addition to appropriations made for such purposes. The Hospital Administrator or Medical Director, in the discretion of the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation, shall be responsible for the maintenance of detailed records relating to the use and disbursement of such donations, gifts and bequests. An annual report regarding the status of special bank accounts created pursuant to this section shall be submitted by the V.I. Government Hospitals and Health Facilities Corporation to the Commissioner of Finance.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 281 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 281. Fees payable by private patients

 Professional service fees may be charged by physicians, dentists and nurses for personal services rendered to private patients in the Government hospitals. If Government supplies are used, their actual cost shall be billed monthly by the Government hospital and paid for by the private practitioner monthly. The term “private patients” as used in this section means any patient who specifically requests and contracts for the services of a particular physician, dentist or nurse. Government physicians, dentists and nurses may charge fees for services rendered outside their regular duties.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 282 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 282. Resident physicians; salary; accommodations; subsidization of accommodations for St. John nursing personnel

 (a)–(c) [Repealed eff. Jan. 1, 1971.] (a) The Commissioner in his discretion may subsidize living accommodations for nursing personnel recruited for service on the island of St. John by contributing toward the rental of such accommodations such amount as he may deem reasonable and equitable. Such subsidies shall be paid from the annual appropriations of the Department of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 283 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 283. Referral of patients outside Virgin Islands; expenses

 (a) The Commissioner is hereby authorized to refer patients outside the Virgin Islands for medical, surgical and other professional services, or bring in to the Virgin Islands specialists for professional and/or consultative services, when in his professional judgment such action is essential and conducive to the best interest of the patient through total care; Provided, however, That such services and/or facilities are not obtainable in the Department of Health. (b) The expenses of transporting such patients from and to the Virgin Islands, and such specialists to and from the Virgin Islands, including cost of medical, surgical and other professional services, shall be paid by the Department of Health from the appropriation herein made available and/or any other appropriation available to the Department for such purposes. The expenses herein authorized shall include embalming and related expenses.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 286. Assignment of accounts receivable for collection by third party

 Any account receivable of any hospital or clinic of the Government of the Virgin Islands which remains delinquent 90 days after the date of the first billing therefor, may be assigned for collection by a third party.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286a. Lien created—application—priority

 (a) Every hospital, as defined in 29 V.I.C. § 221(2), that is under the jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands Government Hospital and Health Facilities Corporation has a lien for all reasonable and necessary charges for hospital care, treatment and maintenance of ill or injured persons upon any and all causes of action, suits, claims, counterclaims or demands accruing to the person to whom such care, treatment or maintenance was furnished, or accruing to the legal representatives of the person in the case of the person’s death, on account of illness or injuries giving rise to the causes of action or claims and which necessitated the hospital care, treatment and maintenance. (b) The hospital lien may not, however, apply to any amount in excess of one third of the damages obtained or recovered by the person by judgment, settlement or compromise rendered or entered into by the person or the person’s legal representative by virtue of the cause of action accruing thereto. (c) The lien created is subject to and subordinate to any attorney’s lien whether by contract, suit or judgment upon the claim or cause of action and is not applicable to accidents or injuries within the purview of the Virgin Islands Workers’ Compensation Law, codified in title 24 chapter 11. A lien arising out of a motor vehicle accident does not take priority over a mechanic’s lien or prior recorded lien upon a motor vehicle involved in the accident.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286b. Perfecting lien—filing and notice—contesting—effect of settlement or payment

 (a) In order to perfect a lien, the agent or operator of a hospital, not later than 120 days after the person has been discharged from the hospital, shall file in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands located in the division where the patient resides, if a resident of the Virgin Islands, and in the county in which the person resides, if outside the Virgin Islands, a written verified statement setting forth the name and address of the person as it appears on the records of the hospital, and the name and address of the operator of the hospital, the dates of admission and discharge of the patient, the amount claimed to be due for the hospital care, and to the best of the claimant’s knowledge, the names and addresses of persons, firms or corporations claimed by the ill or injured person or by the person’s legal representative, to be liable for damages arising from the illness or injuries. (b) A copy of the claim, not later than 30 days after the filing, must be sent by registered mail, postage prepaid, to each person, firm or corporation so claimed to be liable on account of the illness or injuries, at the address given in the statement, and to the attorney, or attorneys, representing the person to whom services were rendered by the hospital if the attorney, or attorneys, are known to the hospital or could, with reasonable diligence, be known to the hospital. (c) The filing of the claim is notice to all persons, firms or corporations who may be liable on account of the illness or injuries, whether or not they are named in the claim or lien and whether or not a copy of the claim has been received by them. (d) Any person desiring to contest the lien or the reasonableness of the charges may do so by filing a motion to quash or reduce the lien in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands in the division that it is filed or in the county in which the lien was perfected, making all other parties in interest respondents to the motion to quash. A motion to quash may be heard in term time or vacation and at a time and place as fixed by order of the court. (e)  (1) If at the time an insurance carrier or other person, corporation or entity reaches a settlement and obtains a release of liability on or pays a claim filed by a policyholder or other person against such carrier, person, corporation or other entity, the hospital providing treatment to the policyholder or person has not perfected a lien as set out in this section, any lien perfected subsequent to the settlement or payment does not apply to or create any additional liability on the part of the insurance carrier or other person, corporation or entity paying the settlement or claim. (2) This subsection applies 30 days after the person is discharged from the hospital.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286c (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286c. Duties of court clerk—hospital lien book—fee

 (a) The clerk of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands in the division where the lien was filed, shall endorse on the claim the date and hour of filing and at the expense of the court shall provide a hospital lien book with proper index in which the clerk enters the date and hour of the filing, the name and address of the hospital, the operator of the hospital and of the patient, the amount claimed and the names and addresses of those claimed to be liable for damages. (b) The clerk may charge a reasonable fee for the filing of a claim.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286d (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286d. Impairment of lien—damages

 (a) No release or satisfaction or any action, suit, claim, counterclaim, demand, judgment, settlement or settlement agreement, or any of them, is valid or effectual against a hospital lien unless the hospital as the lienholder joins the action or executes a release of the lien. (b)  (1) Any acceptance of a release or satisfaction of any cause of action, suit, claim, counterclaim, demand or judgment or any settlement of any of the foregoing in the absence of a release or satisfaction of the hospital lien constitutes a prima facie impairment of the lien, and the lienholder is entitled to an action at law for damages on account of the impairment, and in that action may recover from the one accepting the release or satisfaction or making the settlement the reasonable cost of the hospital care, treatment and maintenance. (2) Satisfaction of any judgment rendered in favor of the lienholder in any such action operates as a satisfaction of the lien. (3) Any action by the lienholder must be brought in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands or in a court that has jurisdiction of the amount of the lienholder’s claim where the person resides.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286e (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286e. Release of lien—fee

 (a) To release a perfected lien, the operator of the hospital to whom the lien has been paid shall execute a certificate to the effect that the claim filed by the hospital for treatment, care and maintenance has been paid or discharged and authorizing the clerk of the Superior Court or the court where the lien was filed, to release the lien, the release to be at the expense of the hospital. (b) The clerk shall thereafter enter upon the margin of the hospital lien book in which the lien has been entered, a memorandum of the filing and the date when the certificate of payment or discharge was filed in the clerk’s office, which certificate and entry constitute a release of lien, for which the clerk may charge a reasonable fee.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286f (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286f. Lienholder not to be named on checks or drafts

 No person, firm, or corporation, paying a claim, demand, or judgment shall include the name of any lienholder, as a payee on any drafts or checks issued to settle the claims, demands, or judgments.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 286g (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 17 - Government Hospital and Medical Fees|Subchapter II - Hospital Liens|§ 286g. Limitations on hospital

 This subchapter may not be construed to give any hospital an independent right of action to determine liability for injuries sustained by any person covered under this subchapter nor shall any settlement or compromise of a claim entered into on behalf of the person require the approval of the hospital.