Indiana Code 16-21-9-4. Organizational mission statement; community benefits plan
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Sec. 4. A nonprofit hospital shall develop:
(2) a community benefits plan defined as an operational plan for serving the community’s health care needs that:
(1) an organizational mission statement that identifies the hospital’s commitment to serving the health care needs of the community; and
Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-21-9-4
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- community benefits: means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing charity care, government sponsored indigent health care, donations, education, government sponsored program services, research, and subsidized health services. See Indiana Code 16-21-9-1
- government sponsored indigent health care: means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of Medicare, providing health care services to recipients of Medicaid, and other federal, state, or local indigent health care programs, eligibility for which is based on financial need. See Indiana Code 16-21-9-2
- nonprofit hospital: means a hospital that is organized as a nonprofit corporation or a charitable trust under Indiana law or the laws of any other state or country and that is:
Indiana Code 16-21-9-3
(A) sets out goals and objectives for providing community benefits that include charity care and government sponsored indigent health care; and
(B) identifies the populations and communities served by the hospital.
As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.17.