Title 16, HEALTH

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "government sponsored indigent health care" means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of Medicare, providing health care services to recipients of Medicaid, and other federal, state, or local indigent health care programs, eligibility for which is…

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "nonprofit hospital" means a hospital that is organized as a nonprofit corporation or a charitable trust under Indiana law or the laws of any other state or country and that is: (1) eligible for tax exempt bond financing; or (2) exempt from state …

Sec. 4. A nonprofit hospital shall develop: (1) an organizational mission statement that identifies the hospital's commitment to serving the health care needs of the community; and (2) a community benefits plan defined as an operational plan for serving the community's health car…

Sec. 5. When developing the community benefits plan, the hospital shall consider the health care needs of the community as determined by communitywide needs assessments. As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.17.

Sec. 6. The hospital shall include at least the following elements in the community benefits plan: (1) Mechanisms to evaluate the plan's effectiveness, including a method for soliciting the views of the communities served by the hospital. (2) Measurable objectives to be achieved …

Sec. 7. (a) Each nonprofit hospital shall prepare an annual report of the community benefits plan. The report must include, in addition to the community benefits plan itself, the following background information: (1) The hospital's mission statement. (2) A disclosure of the healt…

Sec. 8. The state department may assess a civil penalty against a nonprofit hospital that fails to make a report of the community benefits plan as required under this chapter. The penalty may not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day a report is delinquent after the d…

Sec. 9. The rights and remedies provided for in this chapter are in addition to other statutory or common law rights or remedies available to the state or a nonprofit hospital. As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.17.

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a county containing any of the following: (1) A second class city. (2) A consolidated city. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-22-2 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.

Sec. 10. If the nonprofit hospital corporation elects to abandon the condemnation proceedings, the corporation shall pay the expenses or losses actually incurred by the condemning authority arising out of the condemnation proceedings. The nonprofit hospital corporation may enter …

Sec. 11. When the nonprofit hospital corporation has paid the amount of the award or damages, and all costs and expenses incurred in the condemnation proceedings, including reasonable attorney's fees for the condemning authority, the condemning authority shall transfer, assign, a…

Sec. 12. A nonprofit hospital corporation for whose use and benefit condemnation proceedings are instituted shall be operated for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the county without discrimination. The rates and charges for services must be reasonable and be uniform for all …

Sec. 13. The grant or exercise of the power of condemnation under this chapter for the use and benefit of a nonprofit hospital corporation does not control, limit, or alter the right of the nonprofit hospital corporation to determine the physicians that may practice in or admit p…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "general hospital" means an inpatient facility open to the general public that admits any combination of maternity, acute, or long term medical or surgical patients and provides personal care, x-rays, laboratory, surgery, and other recognized hosp…

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "general hospital services" means hospital services furnished by a general hospital. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-22-1(c).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.

Sec. 4. General hospitals owned and operated by nonprofit hospital corporations are declared to be a public use. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-22-2 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.

Sec. 5. The county executive or the city legislative body of a city in a county subject to this chapter may acquire by condemnation real property or an interest in real property, including any buildings, structures, or other improvements, immediately adjacent to and necessary for…

Sec. 6. The condemnation and acquisition must be for the use and benefit of and at the expense of the nonprofit hospital corporation as set forth in section 9 of this chapter. If construction of hospital facilities is not commenced not more than three (3) years after the date of …

Sec. 7. An officer of the corporation shall, not more than sixty (60) days after the commencement of construction, make and file with the county recorder an affidavit showing the date of commencement of construction. An action to effect reversion or to put in issue the commenceme…

Sec. 8. The acquisition and condemnation authorized by this chapter shall be made in accordance with IC 32-24-1 and IC 32-24-6. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-22-3.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.2-2002, SEC.68.

Sec. 9. The: (1) costs and expenses incurred in the condemnation proceedings, including reasonable attorney's fees for the condemning authority; and (2) award or damages due the owner of the real property taken in the condemnation proceedings; shall be paid by the nonprofit hospi…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a nonprofit hospital corporation that: (1) is located in a township having a population of more than eight thousand (8,000) and less than ten thousand (10,000) located in a county having a population of more than forty-six thousand (46,000) and les…

Sec. 2. The township board may, at the request of the township trustee, levy annually and cause to be collected as other taxes are collected a tax upon all of the taxable property within the township. The tax may not exceed six and sixty-seven hundredths cents ($0.0667) on each o…

Sec. 3. The taxes levied under section 2 of this chapter shall be collected as provided by statute for the collection of other taxes upon property in the township. When the taxes are collected, the taxes shall be paid into the treasury of the nonprofit hospital corporation and us…

Sec. 4. (a) This section applies if the township trustee and the township board of the township determine the following: (1) That the hospital is indebted in an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), the payment of which is secured by a mortgage encumbering the buil…

Sec. 5. A township may not exercise the powers under this chapter, raise money by taxation, or incur debt of the township on behalf of a hospital unless the trustee of the township is an ex officio member of the board of directors or other governing board of the hospital througho…

Sec. 1. The division shall investigate a report of an unlicensed health facility operation and report the division's findings to the attorney general. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-4-21 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.11.

Sec. 2. The attorney general may do any of the following: (1) Seek an injunction in the circuit or superior court of the county in which the unlicensed health facility is located or in the circuit or superior court of Marion County. (2) Seek relief under IC 4-21.5, including a ci…

Sec. 3. (a) A person who intentionally: (1) prevents, interferes with, or attempts to impede the work of an employee of the state department in the investigation and enforcement of any provision of this article; (2) prevents or attempts to prevent an employee of the state departm…

Sec. 4. A person who intentionally destroys or falsifies records of the breach of any provision of this article commits a Level 6 felony. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-4-23.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.158-2013, SEC.233.

Sec. 5. A person who: (1) operates a health facility that is not licensed under this article; or (2) advertises by any means the operation of a health facility that is not licensed under this article; commits a Class A misdemeanor. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-4-24.] …

Sec. 6. The state department may impose a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for a violation of a provision of this chapter. As added by P.L.108-1999, SEC.2.

Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "food service establishment" means a fixed or mobile establishment that serves food to the public for consumption on the premises. (b) The term does not include establishments operated on a temporary basis by a charitable or nonprofit corporat…

Sec. 2. (a) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to provide for the approval of placards containing instructions in methods that may be used safely and effectively in an emergency by laymen to remove food lodged in a person's throat. The methods must be limited …

Sec. 3. The state department shall develop and publish guidelines for training programs that may be used on a voluntary basis by food service establishments to train employees in the approved methods. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-41-4.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.14.…

Sec. 4. (a) A person is not obligated to remove, assist in removing, or attempt to remove food from another person's throat. A person who in good faith gratuitously removes, assists in removing, or attempts to remove food from another person's throat in an emergency occurring at …

Sec. 1. This chapter does not apply to x-rays covered by either of the following: (1) IC 16-39-1-2. (2) IC 16-39-7-2. As added by P.L.102-1994, SEC.9.

Sec. 1.5. (a) As used in this chapter, "electronic health record" means a record of an individual's medical history that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. (b) For purposes of this chapter, the term includes billing statements and …

Sec. 2. A provider may not charge a person for: (1) providing a digital copy or digital access through an interoperability platform of an individual's electronic health record; or (2) making and providing paper copies of medical records at an amount greater than the amount set in…

Sec. 4. (a) As used in this section, "department" refers to the department of insurance created by IC 27-1-1-1. (b) The department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to set the amounts that may be charged for copying and providing paper copies of medical records under this chapter. …

Sec. 1.5. (a) If a public health authority has reason to believe that: (1) an individual: (A) has been infected with; or (B) has been exposed to; a serious communicable disease or outbreak; and (2) the individual is likely to cause the infection of an uninfected individual if the…

Sec. 1.6. (a) A public health authority may impose or petition a court to impose a quarantine and do the following: (1) Distribute information to the public concerning: (A) the risks of the disease; (B) how the disease is transmitted; (C) available precautions to reduce the risk …

Sec. 1.7. (a) An immunization program established by a public health authority to combat a public health emergency involving a serious communicable disease must comply with the following: (1) The state department must develop and distribute or post information concerning the risk…

Sec. 10. (a) The administrator of a hospital or other facility for the treatment of tuberculosis or other serious communicable disease may transfer or authorize the transfer of a nonresident indigent individual with a communicable disease to the state or county of legal residence…

Sec. 12. (a) The superintendent or the chief executive officer of the facility to which an individual with a communicable disease has been ordered under this chapter may decline to admit a patient if the superintendent or chief executive officer determines that there is not avail…

Sec. 13. (a) The court shall determine what part of the cost of care or treatment ordered by the court, if any, the individual with a communicable disease can pay and whether there are other available sources of public or private funding responsible for payment of the individual'…