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Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
Act No.397
Georgia Laws 1957
AN ACT
To provide additional powers and duties to be vested in the
				  State Board of Health in order to promote and preserve the life and health of
				  the people of the State through a program for the hospital care of the
				  indigent; to provide assistance to the several counties of the State in
				  purchasing hospital care for citizens thereof who are in need of and are
				  financially unable to provide such care for themselves; to appropriate funds to
				  be used to match and supplement local, federal or other funds made available
				  for this purpose; to provide for the administration of the Act by the State
				  Board of Health; to authorize the appointment of a Hospital Care Council by the
				  Governor to advise and assist in the development of rules, regulations and
				  standards necessary and proper to the implementation and administration of this
				  Act; to repeal conflicting laws, and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
In order to promote and preserve the public health there is
				  hereby established a "Hospital Care for the Indigent" program to be
				  administered by the State Board of Health. The purpose of this program is to
				  assist counties in the purchase of hospital care for persons who are ill or
				  injured, and who can be helped by treatment in a hospital, and who are
				  financially unable to meet the full cost of hospital care from their own
				  resources or from the resources of those upon whom they are legally dependent.
				  The purchase of such hospital care shall be limited to the non-profit basic
				  cost of hospital care needed for the treatment of the ill or injured, as deemed
				  necessary and ordered by the physician in charge of the case in accordance with
				  the provisions of this Act and the rules, regulations and standards adopted and
				  promulgated by the Board hereunder.
SECTION 2.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Act
				  shall have the following meaning ascribed to them in this section, except when
				  the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
a. Board-The State Board of Health;
b. Program-The "Hospital Care for the
				Indigent" program;
c. Participating
				Hospital-A publicly or privately owned hospital holding a valid permit issued
				pursuant to Section 99-1707, Georgia Code Annotated, and having a physician as
				chief of staff and provided further that the governing authority of the
				hospital elects to participate in the program in accordance with the provisions
				of this Act;
d. Physician-A doctor
				of medicine duly licensed to practice medicine in Georgia in accordance with
				Sections 84-901, et seq., Georgia Code Annotated;
e. Indigent Person-Any person who is ill or
				injured and who from his own resources or from the resources of those upon whom
				he is legally dependent is financially unable to meet the full cost of hospital
				care as prescribed or ordered by a physician;
f. Resident-Any person who is in the State of
				Georgia for other than temporary or transitory purposes and who has lived
				continuously in this State for a period of not less than six (6)
				months;
g. Participating County-A
				county, the governing authority of which, by appropriate action, has agreed to
				participate in the program and is current with its prorata share of funds
				necessary for the hospital care for its ill or injured indigent as herein
				defined and in accordance with the provisions of this Act.