WA Rev Code § 74.60.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 74 - Public Assistance|Chapter 74.60 - Hospital Safety Net Assessment.|74.60.030 - Assessments.

RCW 74.60.030 Assessments. (Expires July 1, 2025.)(1)(a) Upon satisfaction of the conditions in RCW 74.60.150(1), and so long as the conditions in RCW 74.60.150(2) have not occurred, an assessment is imposed as set forth in this subsection. Assessment notices must be sent on or about thirty days prior to the end of each quarter and payment is due thirty days thereafter.(b) Effective July 1, 2015, and except as provided in RCW 74.60.050:(i) Each prospective payment system hospital, except psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals, shall pay a quarterly assessment. Each quarterly assessment shall be no more than one quarter of three hundred eighty dollars for each annual nonmedicare hospital inpatient day, up to a maximum of fifty-four thousand days per year. For each nonmedicare hospital inpatient day in excess of fifty-four thousand days, each prospective payment system hospital shall pay a quarterly assessment of one quarter of seven dollars for each such day, unless such assessment amount or threshold needs to be modified to comply with applicable federal regulations;(ii) Each critical access hospital shall pay a quarterly assessment of one quarter of ten dollars for each annual nonmedicare hospital inpatient day;(iii) Each psychiatric hospital shall pay a quarterly assessment of no more than one quarter of seventy-four dollars for each annual nonmedicare hospital inpatient day; and(iv) Each rehabilitation hospital shall pay a quarterly assessment of no more than one quarter of seventy-four dollars for each annual nonmedicare hospital inpatient day.(2) The authority shall determine each hospital's annual nonmedicare hospital inpatient days by summing the total reported nonmedicare hospital inpatient days for each hospital that is not exempt from the assessment under RCW 74.60.040. The authority shall obtain inpatient data from the hospital's 2552 cost report data file or successor data file available through the centers for medicare and medicaid services, as of a date to be determined by the authority. For state fiscal year 2021, the authority shall use cost report data for hospitals' fiscal years ending in 2017. For subsequent years, the hospitals' next succeeding fiscal year cost report data must be used.(a) With the exception of a prospective payment system hospital commencing operations after January 1, 2009, for any hospital without a cost report for the relevant fiscal year, the authority shall work with the affected hospital to identify appropriate supplemental information that may be used to determine annual nonmedicare hospital inpatient days.(b) A prospective payment system hospital commencing operations after January 1, 2009, must be assessed in accordance with this section after becoming an eligible new prospective payment system hospital as defined in RCW 74.60.010.[ 2019 c 318 § 4; 2017 c 228 § 4; 2015 2nd sp.s. c 5 § 3; 2014 c 143 § 1; 2013 2nd sp.s. c 17 § 4; 2010 1st sp.s. c 30 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 318: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Effective date—2017 c 228: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Effective date—2015 2nd sp.s. c 5: See note following RCW 74.60.005.Effective date—2014 c 143: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [March 28, 2014]." [ 2014 c 143 § 4.]Effective date—2013 2nd sp.s. c 17: See note following RCW 74.60.005.