Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 71 > Chapter 5 > Part 20 - [Expires 7/1/2023] Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2022

• Annual coverage assessment: means the annual assessment imposed on covered hospitals as set forth in this part. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Annual coverage assessment base: means a covered hospital's net patient revenue as shown in its medicare cost report for its fiscal year that ended during calendar year 2016, on file with CMS as of September 30, 2018, subject to the following qualifications:
  (A) If a covered hospital does not have a full twelve-month medicare cost report for 2016 on file with CMS but has a full twelve-month cost report for a subsequent year, then the first full twelve-month medicare cost report for a year following 2016 on file with CMS is the annual coverage assessment base. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bureau: means the bureau of TennCare. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• 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.
• CMS: means the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• control: means indirect or direct ownership of ten percent (10%) or more of a covered hospital. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Controlling person: means a person who, by ownership, contract, or otherwise, has the authority to control the business operations of a covered hospital. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Covered hospital: means a hospital licensed under title 33 or title 68, as of July 1, 2022, but does not include an excluded hospital. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Excluded hospital: means :
  (A) A hospital that has been designated by CMS as a critical access hospital as of July 1, 2022. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• 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.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Medicare cost report: means CMS-2552-10 or a subsequent form adopted by CMS for medicare cost reporting, the cost report for electronic filing of hospitals, for the period applicable as set forth in this section. See Tennessee Code 71-5-2002
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105