Title 16, TITLE 16. HEALTH

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-3-6-17.1.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.29. Repealed by P.L.72-2001, SEC.11.

Sec. 18. (a) If money is received and disbursed under this chapter in a particular state fiscal year, the state department shall submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the following before November 1 of the following state fiscal year: (1) The receipt, disbur…

Sec. 19. (a) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to carry out this chapter. (b) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to ensure that a loan repayment provided under this chapter complies with federal law and regulations. [Pre-1993 Rec…

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-3-6-2.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.29. Repealed by P.L.72-2001, SEC.11.

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "fund" refers to the Indiana health care professional recruitment and retention fund. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-3-6-3.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.29. Amended by P.L.72-2001, SEC.2.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-3-6-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.29. Repealed by P.L.72-2001, SEC.11.

Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "maternal and child health clinic" means a clinic that provides quality, comprehensive prenatal, child health, or family services to a person who would otherwise be unable to obtain these services due to financial or geographic barriers. [Pre-1993…

Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, "shortage area" means a county, city, town, census tract, or township designated by the state department as underserved by health care professionals under section 7 of this chapter. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-3-6-4.] As added by P.L.2-1…

Sec. 7. The state department shall annually adopt the federal designation of the counties, cities, towns, census tracts, and townships in Indiana that are underserved by specific types of health care professionals as determined by the state department. The state department shall …

Sec. 8. (a) The Indiana health care professional recruitment and retention fund is established. The purpose of the fund is to provide loan repayment for student loans incurred by health care professionals to encourage the delivery of health care in shortage areas. The state depar…

Sec. 9. In order to be eligible for loan repayment for student loans, a health care professional must meet all of the following conditions: (1) Hold an unlimited license to practice a health care profession in Indiana that has been declared by the state department to be eligible …

department of health; duties Sec. 1. The state department shall employ a state child fatality review coordinator to do the following: (1) Assist the statewide child fatality review committee chairperson in establishing agendas for meetings of the statewide child fatality review c…

to state department of health Sec. 3. The following must be paid from funds appropriated to the state department: (1) The salary of the state child fatality review coordinator. (2) Expenses for any training for: (A) the state child fatality review coordinator; (B) members of the …

Sec. 1. The gift of William H. Coleman: (1) for the establishment and maintenance of a hospital in Marion County; and (2) for the provision of clinical facilities for students in connection with the Indiana University School of Medicine; contained in the proposal set forth in Act…

Sec. 2. The board of trustees: (1) may accept the control and management of the gift; and (2) shall administer the affairs of the hospital in accordance with the terms and conditions imposed by the donor of the gift. [Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation: 20-12-31.5-…

Sec. 3. (a) In consideration of the gift and on the condition that the gift be made effectual, the hospital must forever bear the name of "William H. Coleman Hospital for Women, of Indiana University". (b) The state pledges that the name is the permanent designation of the hospit…

Sec. 4. The board of trustees may erect and maintain the hospital upon the ground belonging to the state for the use of Indiana University in Indianapolis, near the Robert W. Long Hospital. [Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation: 20-12-31.5-4.] As added by P.L.2-2007,…

Sec. 1. An individual may practice in a remote state under a privilege to practice only in the performance of the individual's EMS duties as assigned by an appropriate authority, as defined in the rules of the commission and under the following circumstances: (1) The individual o…

Sec. 1. (a) The executive of a county or the fiscal body of a city may accept gifts, devises, and bequests, in trust or otherwise, for the purpose of erecting and equipping a suitable building for the county or city health department. (b) The building may contain the offices of l…

proceeds Sec. 2. (a) The gifts, devises, and bequests accepted under this chapter may be in the form of cash or real, personal, or mixed property that, in accordance with the terms of a gift, devise, or bequest, may be converted into cash by the county executive or city fiscal bo…

Sec. 3. Upon the accumulation of a sufficient amount to construct and equip a building for the county or city health department as provided in this chapter, the county executive or city fiscal body may, after consultation with local health boards and officers and after approval o…

Sec. 4. (a) Real property and easements or appurtenances may be acquired by any of the following methods: (1) Gift as provided in section 1 of this chapter. (2) Purchase with money accepted for that purpose. (3) Condemnation proceedings as prescribed by statute. (b) Upon condemna…

Sec. 5. A gift, grant, or conveyance made under this chapter is upon the implied condition that if sufficient money is not available within ten (10) years of the acceptance of the gift, grant, or conveyance, the property or the proceeds from the property, may be used by the count…

Sec. 0.1. As used in this chapter, "contractual allowances" means the difference between revenue at established rates and amounts realizable from third party payors under contractual agreements. As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.12.

Sec. 0.2. As used in this chapter, "education related costs" means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing, funding, or otherwise financially supporting educational benefits, services, and programs, including: (1) education of physicians, nurses, technicians, and other m…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "gross patient revenue" means inpatient and outpatient revenue from services to patients, including payments received from or on behalf of individual patients. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

report Sec. 10. Each year the state health commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall make a compilation of the data obtained from the reports required under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter and report in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 the findings and recommendation…

Sec. 11. (a) The state department shall annually publish a consumer guide to Indiana hospitals. The state department shall compile the data for the consumer guide from the relevant data required to be filed under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter and publish the data in an underst…

Sec. 12. Any person who is a custodian of confidential data at the state department and who knowingly or intentionally: (1) discloses, distributes, or sells confidential data obtained under this chapter; or (2) identifies a specific patient in violation of section 7 of this chapt…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "net patient revenue" means gross patient revenue less deductions for contractual adjustments, bad debts, and charity. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

Sec. 3. (a) Each hospital shall file with the state department a report for the preceding fiscal year within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of the hospital's fiscal year. For the filing of a report for 2022, the state department shall grant an extension of the time t…

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-2(b).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Repealed by P.L.1-2010, SEC.156.

Sec. 5. If further fiscal information is necessary to verify the accuracy of any information contained in the reports filed under section 3 of this chapter, the state department may require the facility to produce the records necessary to verify that information. [Pre-1993 Recodi…

Sec. 6. In addition to the report filed under section 3 of this chapter, each hospital shall, not more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each calendar quarter, file with the state department, or the state department's designated contractor, inpatient and outpati…

of patients; public inspection; copies Sec. 7. (a) The reports filed under section 3 of this chapter: (1) may not contain information that personally identifies a patient or a consumer of health services; and (2) must be open to public inspection. (b) The state department shall p…

Sec. 8. The state department may, through the attorney general, seek to compel compliance with this chapter through injunctive relief. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-5-4.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

Sec. 9. (a) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to carry out this chapter. (b) The rules adopted under this section must include rules that establish a uniform system for completing the reports required under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter. (c) The …

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "authority" means the hospital association created by section 2 of this chapter. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-20-27(b).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.

Sec. 10. A member may not have a pecuniary interest in a contract, an employment, a purchase, or a sale made under the provisions of this chapter. A transaction in which a director has a pecuniary interest is void. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-20-7.] As added by P.L.2…

Sec. 11. (a) All necessary preliminary expenses actually incurred by the governing board to make surveys, prepare estimates of costs and receipts, employ architects, engineers, attorneys, or other consultants, give notices, take options, and all other expenses that must be paid b…

Sec. 12. The governing board of the authority may do the following: (1) Finance and construct or renovate a building for hospital use on land owned by the authority and lease the land and building to the county in which the authority has been created. (2) Sue and be sued and plea…

Sec. 13. Each county may lease land and a building from the authority for hospital purposes. A contract of lease on a particular building may not be entered into for more than forty (40) years but the contract may be renewed for a like or lesser time. [Pre-1993 Recodification Cit…

Sec. 14. A county may, in anticipation of the construction, erection, or renovation of a building, including the necessary equipment and appurtenances, enter into a contract of lease with the authority before the acquisition of a site and the construction, erection, or renovation…

Sec. 15. A lease executed under this chapter may provide for the payment of the lease rental in one (1) of the following ways: (1) Entirely from the levy of taxes. (2) Entirely from the net revenues of the hospital of which the leased building or buildings are a part. (3) In part…

Sec. 17. (a) If a lease provides for the payment of lease rentals for a cumulative building fund, part or all of the cumulative building fund and the tax levied for the cumulative building fund may be committed and pledged to the payment of lease rental. To the extent the amount …

Sec. 18. When the authority, the governing board of the hospital, the county executive, and a majority of the county fiscal body of the county have agreed upon the terms and conditions of a lease proposed to be entered into under the terms and conditions of this chapter and befor…

Sec. 19. Following the hearing the county executive may authorize the execution of the lease originally agreed on or make modifications agreed on with the authority, the governing board, and the county fiscal body. The authorization must be by an order entered in the official rec…

Sec. 2. The county executive of a county owning and operating only one (1) county hospital may, upon written request by the governing board of the hospital, adopt a resolution for the creation of an authority under this chapter. Upon the adoption of the resolution an authority is…

Sec. 20. (a) If the execution of the original or a modified lease is authorized, notice of the signing shall be published on behalf of the county one (1) time in a newspaper of general circulation and published in the county. Except as provided in subsection (b), at least ten (10…

finance Sec. 21. On the filing of the petition the county auditor shall immediately certify a copy, together with other data necessary to present the questions involved, to the department of local government finance. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-20-13(b) part.] As add…