Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 249M - Hospital Health Care Access Assessment Program

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assessment: means the hospital health care access assessment imposed pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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.
• Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Net patient revenue: means all revenue reported by a hospital on the hospital's 2008 Medicare cost report for acute patient care and services, but does not include contractual adjustments, charity care, bad debt, Medicare revenue, or other revenue derived from sources other than hospital operations including but not limited to nonoperating revenue, other operating revenue, skilled nursing facility revenue, physician revenue, and long-term care revenue. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• Nonoperating revenue: means income from activities not relating directly to the day-to-day operations of a hospital such as gains from disposal of a hospital's assets, dividends and interests from security investments, gifts, grants, and endowments. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• Nursing facility: means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Other operating revenue: means income from nonpatient care services including but not limited to tax levy receipts, laundry services, gift shop operations, meal services to individuals other than patients, and vending machine commissions. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• Participating hospital: means a nonstate-owned hospital licensed under chapter 135B that is paid on a prospective payment system basis by Medicare and the medical assistance program for inpatient and outpatient services. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• Program: means the hospital health care access assessment program created in this chapter. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Trust fund: means the hospital health care access trust fund created in section 249M. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Upper payment limit: means the maximum ceiling imposed by federal regulation on a participating hospital's medical assistance program reimbursement for inpatient services under 42 C. See Iowa Code 249M.2
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1