Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 111 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH › Chapter 111-3 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › Subject 111-3-10 - HOSPITAL MEDICAID FINANCING PROGRAM › Rule 111-3-10-.01 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
As used in this Chapter 111-3-10:
(1) "Advisory Committee" means the Georgia
				Hospital Medicaid Financial Program Advisory Committee created by Executive
				Order executed by the Governor on March 5, 2013.
(2) "Board" means the Board of Community
				Health, the body created under O.C.G.A. §
									31-2-3, appointed by the Governor,
				that establishes the general policy to be followed by the Department of
				Community Health.
(3) "Department"
				means the Department of Community Health established under O.C.G.A. §
									31-2-1.
(4) "Hospital" means an institution license
				pursuant to Chapter 7 of Title 31, which is Primarily engaged in providing to
				inpatients, by or under the supervision of physicians, diagnostic services and
				therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment, and care of injured,
				disabled, or sick persons or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of
				injured, disabled, or sick persons. Such term includes public, private,
				rehabilitative, geriatric, osteopathic, and other specialty hospitals but shall
				not include psychiatric hospitals, which shall have the same meaning as
				facilities as defined in paragraph (7) of O.C.G.A. §
									37-3-1, critical assess hospitals
				as defined in paragraph (3) of O.C.G.A. §
									33-21A-2, or any state owned or
				state operated hospitals.
(5) "Long
				Term Acute Care Hospital" means a hospital defined in section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)
				of the Social Security Act that is enrolled in the Medicaid program as of the
				effective date of Article 6C of Chapter 8 of Title 31.
(6) "Non-Governmental Hospital" means a
				subclass of Hospitals, authorized to be defined by the Board pursuant to
				paragraph (a) of O.C.G.A. §
									31-8-179.2, that shall not include
				public, Long Term Acute Care, children's, rehabilitative, geriatric,
				osteopathic, and other specialty hospitals, psychiatric hospitals which shall
				have the same meaning as facilities as defined in paragraph (7) of O.C.G.A.
				§
									37-3-1, critical assess hospitals
				as defined in paragraph (3) of O.C.G.A. §
									33-21A-2, or any state owned or
				state operated hospitals.
(7)
				"Provider Payment" means a payment assessed by the Department pursuant to this
				chapter for the privilege of operating a Non-Governmental Hospital.
(8) "Segregated Account" means an account for
				the dedication and deposit of Provider Payments which is established within the
				Trust Fund.
(9) "State Plan
				Amendment" means all documentation submitted by the Commissioner, on behalf of
				the Department, to and for approval by the Secretary of Health and Human
				Services pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of 1935, as
				amended.
(10) "Trust Fund" means
				the Indigent Care Trust Fund created by Article 6 of Chapter 8 of Title
				31.
(11) "Waiver" means a waiver of
				the requirements for permissible health care related taxes, as provided for in
				42 C.F.R §
										433.68.
Act I of the 2013
				  Session of the Georgia General Assembly.