As used in this Subpart, the following terms have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section:

            (1) “Department” means the Louisiana Department of Health.

            (2) “Governmental institutional provider” means either of the following:

            (a) A nonstate governmental hospital, licensed in accordance with the Hospital Licensing Law, La. Rev. Stat. 40:2100 et seq., other than a rural hospital as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 40:1189.3.

            (b) A hospital included in the definition of public, nonrural community hospital as defined in the Louisiana Medicaid State Plan.

            (3) “Institutional provider” means a nongovernmental hospital licensed in accordance with the Hospital Licensing Law, La. Rev. Stat. 40:2100 et seq.

            (4) “Paying hospital” means an institutional provider required by the provisions of this Subpart to make a local hospital assessment payment.

            (5) “Program” means the local healthcare provider participation program authorized by this Subpart.

            (6) “Rural institutional provider” means a hospital, other than one defined in La. Rev. Stat. 40:1189.3, that is licensed by the department, has no more than sixty hospital beds on November 1, 2020, and meets any of the following criteria:

            (a) Is located in a municipality with a population of not less than seven thousand persons and not more than seven thousand five hundred persons according to the most recent federal decennial census and in a parish with a population of not less than thirty thousand persons and not more than thirty-five thousand persons according to the most recent federal decennial census.

            (b) Is located in a municipality with a population of not less than ten thousand persons and not more than ten thousand five hundred persons according to the most recent federal decennial census and in a parish with a population of not less than eighty thousand persons and not more than ninety thousand persons according to the most recent federal decennial census.

            (c) Is located in a municipality with a population of not less than three thousand persons and not more than three thousand five hundred persons according to the most recent federal decennial census and in a parish with a population of not less than thirty thousand persons and not more than thirty-five thousand persons according to the most recent federal decennial census.

            Acts 2020, No. 330, §1.