TN Code § 71-5-2002 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 71 - Welfare|Chapter 5 - Programs and Services for Poor Persons|Part 20 - Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2020 [Effective Until July 1, 2021]|§ 71-5-2002. Part Definitions. [Effective Until July 1, 2021.]

 As used in this part:   “Annual coverage assessment” means the annual assessment imposed on covered hospitals as set forth in this part;   “Annual coverage assessment base” means a covered hospital's net patient revenue as shown in its medicare cost report for its fiscal year that ended during calendar year 2016, on file with CMS as of September 30, 2018, subject to the following qualifications:  If a covered hospital does not have a full twelve-month medicare cost report for 2016 on file with CMS but has a full twelve-month cost report for a subsequent year, then the first full twelve-month medicare cost report for a year following 2016 on file with CMS is the annual coverage assessment base;   If a covered hospital does not have a full twelve-month medicare cost report for 2016 on file with CMS and does not have a full twelve-month cost report for a subsequent year but has a cost report for 2016 that covers at least nine (9) months of 2016, then the assessment base is calculated by annualizing the 2016 cost report data;   If a covered hospital was first licensed in 2016 or later and did not replace an existing hospital, and if the hospital has a medicare cost report on file with CMS, then the hospital's initial cost report on file with CMS is the base for the hospital assessment. If the hospital does not have an initial cost report on file with CMS but does have a complete twelve-month joint annual report filed with the department of health, then the net patient revenue from the first twelve-month joint annual report is the annual coverage assessment base. If the hospital does not have a medicare cost report or a full twelve-month joint annual report filed with the department of health, then the annual coverage assessment base is the covered hospital's projected net patient revenue for its first full year of operation as shown in its certificate of need application filed with the health services and development agency;   If a covered hospital was first licensed in 2016 or later and replaced an existing hospital, then the annual coverage assessment base is the replacement hospital's initial medicare cost report on file with CMS. If the hospital does not have a medicare cost report on file with CMS, then the hospital's annual coverage assessment base is either the predecessor hospital's net patient revenue as shown in its medicare cost report for its fiscal year that ended during calendar year 2016, or, if the predecessor hospital does not have a 2016 medicare cost report, then the cost report for the first fiscal year following 2016 on file with CMS;   If a covered hospital is not required to file an annual medicare cost report with CMS, then the hospital's annual coverage assessment base is its net patient revenue for the fiscal year ending during calendar year 2016 or the first fiscal year that the hospital was in operation after 2016 as shown in the covered hospital's joint annual report filed with the department of health; and   If a covered hospital's fiscal year 2016 medicare cost report is not contained in any of the CMS healthcare cost report information system files and if the hospital does not meet any of the other qualifications listed in subdivisions (2)(A)-(E), then the hospital must submit a copy of the hospital's 2016 medicare cost report to the bureau in order to allow for the determination of the hospital's net patient revenue for the state fiscal year 2020-2021 annual coverage assessment;     “Bureau” means the bureau of TennCare;   “CMS” means the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services;   “Controlling person” means a person who, by ownership, contract, or otherwise, has the authority to control the business operations of a covered hospital. As used in this subdivision (5), “control” means indirect or direct ownership of ten percent (10%) or more of a covered hospital;   “Covered hospital” means a hospital licensed under title 33 or title 68, as of July 1, 2020, but does not include an excluded hospital;   “Excluded hospital” means:  A hospital that has been designated by CMS as a critical access hospital as of July 1, 2020;   A mental health hospital owned by this state;   A hospital providing primarily rehabilitative or long-term acute care services;   A children's research hospital that does not charge patients for services beyond that reimbursed by third-party payers; and   A hospital that is determined by the bureau as eligible to certify public expenditures for the purpose of securing federal medical assistance percentage payments;     “Medicare cost report” means CMS-2552-10 or a subsequent form adopted by CMS for medicare cost reporting, the cost report for electronic filing of hospitals, for the period applicable as set forth in this section; and   “Net patient revenue” from the medicare cost report means the amount calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for hospitals that is reported on Worksheet G-3, Column 1, Line 3, of the 2016 medicare cost report excluding long-term care inpatient ancillary and other non-hospital revenues, or, in the case of a hospital that did not file a 2016 medicare cost report, comparable data from the first complete cost report filed after 2016 by the hospital.