Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-21-9-8

  • 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
  • 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

   Sec. 8. The state department may assess a civil penalty against a nonprofit hospital that fails to make a report of the community benefits plan as required under this chapter. The penalty may not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day a report is delinquent after the date on which the report is due. No penalty may be assessed against a hospital under this section until thirty (30) business days have elapsed after written notification to the hospital of its failure to file a report.

As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.17.