Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1248.6

  • Paying hospital: means an institutional provider required by the provisions of this Subpart to make a local hospital assessment payment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1248.1
  • Representative: means a person who is a parent, tutor, curator, spouse, trustee, attorney, or other legal agent of the patient and who is authorized, by and on behalf of the patient, to exercise any of the patient's rights, privileges, or immunities granted by this Section or to fulfill any of the patient's obligations, duties, or forbearances imposed under this Section, because the patient has executed a written authorization and mandate to that effect or because the law operates to that effect due to the status of that patient and his relationship to such person, as when the patient is a minor child and his parent must act for him. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1237.1

            A. Any parish that collects a local hospital assessment payment authorized by this Subpart shall hold an annual public hearing on the amounts of any local hospital assessment payments that the parish intends to require during the year and how the revenue derived from those payments is to be spent.

            B. Not later than the tenth day before the date of the hearing required by Subsection A of this Section, the parish governing authority shall publish notice of the hearing in the official journal of the parish. A representative of a paying hospital shall be entitled to appear at the time and place designated in the public notice and to be heard regarding any matter related to the local hospital assessment payments authorized by this Subpart.

            Acts 2020, No. 330, §1.