Indiana Code 16-24-1-20. Admission to hospital; applications; discrimination; payment for services
(b) All applications must meet the following conditions:
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(2) Be filed and recorded in a book kept for that purpose in the order of receipt.
(c) When the hospital is completed and ready for the treatment of patients, or whenever there are vacancies, admission shall be made in the order in which the names of applicants who are certified by the superintendent to have tuberculosis appear in the application book.
(d) A patient shall not be discriminated against because the patient or the patient’s relatives contribute to the cost of the patient’s maintenance, in whole or in part. A patient may not pay more for the patient’s maintenance than the average per capita cost of maintenance, including a reasonable allowance for the interest on the cost of the hospital. An officer or employee of the hospital may not accept from any patient any fee, payment, or gratuity for services.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-11-1-6.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.7.