Use of hospital care for the indigent funds as state share

Ind. Code § 16-21-10-10, under Chapter 10. Hospital Assessment Fee.

Ind. Code § 16-21-10-10

dollars Sec. 10. This section: (1) is effective upon implementation of the fee; and (2) does not apply to funds under IC 12-16-17. Notwithstanding any other law, the part of the amounts appropriated for or transferred to the hospital care for the indigent program for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and each state fiscal year thereafter that are not required to be paid to the office by law shall be used exclusively as state share dollars for the payments described in sections 8(a) and 11 of this chapter. Any hospital care for the indigent funds that are not required for the payments described in sections 8(a) and 11 of this chapter after the cessation of the collection of the fee under section 6(b) of this chapter shall be used for the state share dollars of the payments in IC 12-15-20-2(8)(G)(ii) through IC 12-15-20-2(8)(G)(x). As added by P.L.205-2013, SEC.214.

IC 16-21-10-11 Disproportionate share payments; allocations of federal Medicaid disproportionate share allotments Sec. 11. (a) This section: (1) does not apply to the incremental fee described in section 13.3 of this chapter; (2) is effective upon the implementation of the fee described in section 6 of this chapter, excluding the part of the fee used for purposes of section 13.3 of this chapter; and (3) applies to the Medicaid disproportionate share payments for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and each state fiscal year thereafter. (b) The state share dollars used to fund disproportionate share payments to acute care hospitals licensed under IC 16-21-2 that qualify as disproportionate share providers or municipal disproportionate share providers under IC 12-15-16-1(a) or IC 12-15-16-1(b) shall be paid with money collected through the fee and the hospital care for the indigent dollars described in section 10 of this chapter. (c) The federal Medicaid disproportionate share allotments for the state fiscal years beginning July 1, 2013, and each state fiscal year thereafter shall be allocated in their entirety to acute care hospitals licensed under IC 16-21-2 that qualify as disproportionate share providers or municipal disproportionate share providers under IC 12-15-16-1(a) or IC 12-15-16-1(b). No part of the federal disproportionate share allotments applicable for disproportionate share payments for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and each state fiscal year thereafter may be allocated to institutions for mental disease or other mental health facilities, as defined by applicable federal law. As added by P.L.205-2013, SEC.214. Amended by P.L.213-2015, SEC.145; P.L.30-2016, SEC.38.