Connecticut General Statutes 19a-644 – Annual reports of short-term acute care general or children’s hospitals. Regulations on affiliation or control of health care facilities and institutions. Required reporting of audited financial statements
(a) On or before February twenty-eighth annually, for the fiscal year ending on September thirtieth of the immediately preceding year, each short-term acute care general or children’s hospital shall report to the unit with respect to its operations in such fiscal year, in such form as the unit may by regulation require. Such report shall include: (1) Salaries and fringe benefits for the ten highest paid hospital and health system employees; (2) the name of each joint venture, partnership, subsidiary and corporation related to the hospital; (3) the salaries paid to hospital and health system employees by each such joint venture, partnership, subsidiary and related corporation and by the hospital to the employees of related corporations; and (4) information and data prescribed by the Office of Health Strategy concerning charges for trauma activation fees. For purposes of this subsection, “health system” has the same meaning as provided in § 33-182aa.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 19a-644
- Affiliate: means a person, entity or organization controlling, controlled by or under common control with another person, entity or organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Certificate of need: means a certificate issued by the unit. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Health care facility: includes any parent company, subsidiary, affiliate or joint venture, or any combination thereof, of any such facility. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Office: means the Office of Health Strategy. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental subdivision, agency or public or private organization of any character, but does not include the agency conducting the proceeding. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- Transfer of ownership: means a transfer that impacts or changes the governance or controlling body of a health care facility, institution or large group practice, including, but not limited to, all affiliations, mergers or any sale or transfer of net assets of a health care facility. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
- Unit: means the Health Systems Planning Unit. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-630
(b) The Office of Health Strategy shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to provide for the collection of data and information in addition to the annual report required in subsection (a) of this section. Such regulations shall provide for the submission of information about the operations of the following entities: Persons or parent corporations that own or control the health care facility, institution or provider; corporations, including limited liability corporations, in which the health care facility, institution, provider, its parent, any type of affiliate or any combination thereof, owns more than an aggregate of fifty per cent of the stock or, in the case of nonstock corporations, is the sole member; and any partnerships in which the person, health care facility, institution, provider, its parent or an affiliate or any combination thereof, or any combination of health care providers or related persons, owns a greater than fifty per cent interest. For purposes of this subsection, “affiliate” means any person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with any health care facility, institution, provider or person that is regulated in any way under this chapter. A person is deemed controlled by another person if the other person, or one of that other person’s affiliates, officers, agents or management employees, acts as a general partner or manager of the person in question.
(c) Each nonprofit short-term acute care general or children’s hospital shall include in the annual report required pursuant to subsection (a) of this section a report of all transfers of assets, transfers of operations or changes of control involving its clinical or nonclinical services or functions from such hospital to a person or entity organized or operated for profit.
(d) Each hospital that is a party to a transfer of ownership involving a hospital for which a certificate of need application was filed and approved pursuant to this chapter shall, during the fiscal year ending on September thirtieth of the immediately preceding year, include in the annual report required pursuant to subsection (a) of this section any salary, severance payment, stock offering or other financial gain realized by each officer, director, board member or senior manager of the hospital as a result of such transaction.
(e) The unit shall require each hospital licensed by the Department of Public Health, that is not subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, to report to said unit on its operations in the preceding fiscal year by filing copies of the hospital’s audited financial statements, except a health system, as defined in § 19a-508c, may submit to the unit one such report that includes the audited financial statements for each of its hospitals. Such report shall be due at the unit on or before the close of business on the last business day of the fifth month following the month in which a hospital’s fiscal year ends.