For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) “Acute psychiatric days” means the total number of Medi-Cal specialty mental health service administrative days, Medi-Cal specialty mental health service acute care days, acute psychiatric administrative days, and acute psychiatric acute days identified in the Tentative Medi-Cal Utilization Statistics for the 2011–12 state fiscal year as calculated by the department as of July 21, 2011.
(b) “Converted hospital” means a private hospital that becomes a designated public hospital or a nondesignated public hospital on or after July 1, 2011.
(c) “Days data source” means the hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report filed with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development as of May 5, 2011, for its fiscal year ending during 2009.
(d) “Designated public hospital” shall have the meaning given in subdivision (d) of Section 14166.1 as of July 1, 2011.
(e) “General acute care days” means the total number of Medi-Cal general acute care days paid by the department to a hospital for services in the 2009 calendar year, as reflected in the state paid claims file on July 15, 2011.
(f) “High acuity days” means Medi-Cal coronary care unit days, pediatric intensive care unit days, intensive care unit days, neonatal intensive care unit days, and burn unit days paid by the department during the 2009 calendar year, as reflected in the state paid claims file prepared by the department on July 15, 2011.
(g) “Hospital inpatient services” means all services covered under Medi-Cal and furnished by hospitals to patients who are admitted as hospital inpatients and reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis by the department directly or through its fiscal intermediary. Hospital inpatient services include outpatient services furnished by a hospital to a patient who is admitted to that hospital within 24 hours of the provision of the outpatient services that are related to the condition for which the patient is admitted. Hospital inpatient services do not include services for which a managed health care plan is financially responsible.
(h) “Hospital outpatient services” means all services covered under Medi-Cal furnished by hospitals to patients who are registered as hospital outpatients and reimbursed by the department on a fee-for-service basis directly or through its fiscal intermediary. Hospital outpatient services do not include services for which a managed health care plan is financially responsible, or services rendered by a hospital-based federally qualified health center for which reimbursement is received pursuant to Section 14132.100.
(i) “Individual hospital acute psychiatric supplemental payment” means the total amount of acute psychiatric hospital supplemental payments to a subject hospital for a quarter for which the supplemental payments are made. The “individual hospital acute psychiatric supplemental payment” shall be calculated for subject hospitals by multiplying the number of acute psychiatric days for the individual hospital for which a mental health plan was financially responsible by the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 14169.3 and dividing the result by four.
(j) (1) “Managed health care plan” means a health care delivery system that manages the provision of health care and receives prepaid capitated payments from the state in return for providing services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
(2) (A) Managed health care plans include county organized health systems and entities contracting with the department to provide services pursuant to two-plan models and geographic managed care. Entities providing these services contract with the department pursuant to any of the following:
(i) Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 14087.3).
(ii) Article 2.8 (commencing with Section 14087.5).
(iii) Article 2.81 (commencing with Section 14087.96).
(iv) Article 2.91 (commencing with Section 14089).
(B) Managed health care plans do not include any of the following:
(i) Mental health plans contracting to provide mental health care for Medi-Cal beneficiaries pursuant to Chapter 8.9 (commencing with Section 14700).
(ii) Health plans not covering inpatient services such as primary care case management plans operating pursuant to Section 14088.85.
(iii) Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly organizations operating pursuant to Chapter 8.75 (commencing with Section 14591).
(k) “Medi-Cal managed care days” means the total number of general acute care days, including well baby days, listed for the county organized health system and prepaid health plans identified in the Tentative Medi-Cal Utilization Statistics for the 2011–12 fiscal year, as calculated by the department as of July 21, 2011.
(l) “Medicaid inpatient utilization rate” means Medicaid inpatient utilization rate as defined in Section 1396r-4 of Title 42 of the United States Code and as set forth in the final disproportionate share hospital eligibility list for the 2010–11 fiscal year released by the department as of May 1, 2011.
(m) “Mental health plan” means a mental health plan that contracts with the state to furnish or arrange for the provision of mental health services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries pursuant to Chapter 8.9 (commencing with Section 14700).
(n) “New hospital” means a hospital operation, business, or facility functioning under current or prior ownership as a private hospital that does not have a days data source or a hospital that has a days data source in whole, or in part, from a previous operator where there is an outstanding monetary liability owed to the state in connection with the Medi-Cal program and the new operator did not assume liability for the outstanding monetary obligation.
(o) “New noncontract hospital” means a private hospital that was a contract hospital on March 1, 2011, and elects to become a noncontract hospital at any time between March 1, 2011, and the end of the program period.
(p) “Nondesignated public hospital” means either of the following:
(1) A public hospital that is licensed under subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, is not designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report for the hospital’s latest fiscal year ending in 2009, and satisfies the definition in paragraph (25) of subdivision (a) of Section 14105.98, excluding designated public hospitals.
(2) A tax-exempt nonprofit hospital that is licensed under subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, is not designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report for the hospital’s latest fiscal year ending in 2009, is operating a hospital owned by a local health care district, and is affiliated with the health care district hospital owner by means of the district’s status as the nonprofit corporation’s sole corporate member.
(q) “Outpatient base amount” means the total amount of payments for hospital outpatient services made to a hospital in the 2009 calendar year, as reflected in the state paid claims files prepared by the department on June 2, 2011.
(r) “Private hospital” means a hospital that meets all of the following conditions:
(1) Is licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Is in the Charitable Research Hospital peer group, as set forth in the 1991 Hospital Peer Grouping Report published by the department, or is not designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Annual Financial Disclosure Report for the hospital’s latest fiscal year ending in 2009.
(3) Does not satisfy the Medicare criteria to be classified as a long-term care hospital.
(4) Is a nonpublic hospital, nonpublic converted hospital, or converted hospital as those terms are defined in paragraphs (26) to (28), inclusive, respectively, of subdivision (a) of Section 14105.98.
(s) “Program period” means the period from July 1, 2011, to December 31, 2013, inclusive.
(t) “Subject fiscal quarter” means a state fiscal quarter beginning on or after July 1, 2011, and ending before January 1, 2014.
(u) “Subject fiscal year” means a state fiscal year that ends after July 1, 2011, and begins before January 1, 2014.
(v) “Subject hospital” means a hospital that meets all of the following conditions:
(1) Is licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Is in the Charitable Research Hospital peer group, as set forth in the 1991 Hospital Peer Grouping Report published by the department, or is not designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Annual Financial Disclosure Report for the hospital’s latest fiscal year ending in 2009.
(3) Does not satisfy the Medicare criteria to be classified as a long-term care hospital.
(w) “Subject month” means a calendar month beginning on or after July 1, 2011, and ending before January 1, 2014.
(x) “Upper payment limit” means a federal upper payment limit on the amount of the Medicaid payment for which federal financial participation is available for a class of service and a class of health care providers, as specified in Part 447 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The applicable upper payment limit shall be separately calculated for inpatient and outpatient hospital services.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 34, Sec. 233. (SB 1009) Effective June 27, 2012. Operative July 1, 2012, by Sec. 254 of Ch. 34. Conditionally inoperative as provided in Sections 14169.13 (subd. (c), para. (1)) and 14169.40, or on date prescribed in Section 14169.16. Repealed on or after January 1, 2015, as provided in Section 14169.16.)
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