§ 32.1-333. Creation of fund; administration
A. There is hereby created the Virginia Indigent Health Care Trust Fund whose purpose is to receive moneys appropriated by the Commonwealth and contributions from certain hospitals and others for the purpose of distributing these moneys to certain hospitals subject to restrictions as provided in this chapter.
B. The fund shall be the responsibility of the Board and Department of Medical Assistance Services and shall be maintained and administered separately from any other program or fund of the Board and Department. However, all funds voluntarily contributed or donated to the fund for the purpose of subsidizing pilot health care projects for the uninsured, including any funds voluntarily contributed by local governments, shall be administered by the Technical Advisory Panel in accordance with Board regulations.
C. The Board may promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) for the administration of the fund consistent with this chapter, including but not limited to:
1. Uniform eligibility criteria to define those medically indigent persons whose care shall qualify a hospital for reimbursement from the fund. Such criteria shall define medically indigent persons as only those individuals whose gross family income is equal to or less than 100 percent of the federal nonfarm poverty level as published for the then current year in the Code of Federal Regulations.
2. Hospital inpatient and outpatient medical services qualifying for reimbursement from the fund. Such medical services shall be limited to those categories of inpatient and outpatient hospital services covered under the Medical Assistance Program, but shall exclude any durational or newborn infant service limitations.
3. A mechanism to ensure that hospitals are compensated from the fund only for charity care as defined in this chapter.
4. Terms, conditions, and reporting requirements for hospitals participating in the fund.
5. Terms, conditions, and reporting requirements for pilot health care projects for the uninsured.
(1989, cc. 635, 747; 1994, c. 466; 1995, c. 333.)
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