Section 19a-649 - (Formerly Sec. 19a-167f). Uncompensated care. Annual submission of information(a) The unit shall review annually the level of uncompensated care provided by each hospital to the indigent. Each hospital shall file annually with the unit its policies regarding the provision of charity care and reduced cost services to the indigent, excluding medical assistance recipients, and its debt collection practices. A hospital shall file its audited financial statements not later than February twenty-eighth of each year, except a health system, as defined in section 19a-508c, may file one such statement that includes the audited financial statements for each hospital within the health system. Not later than March thirty-first of each year, the hospital shall file a verification of the hospital's net revenue for the most recently completed fiscal year in a format prescribed by the unit.(b) Each hospital shall annually report, along with data submitted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, (1) the number of applicants for charity care and reduced cost services, (2) the number of approved applicants, and (3) the total and average charges and costs of the amount of charity care and reduced cost services provided.(c) Each hospital recognized as a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, shall, along with data submitted annually pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, submit to the unit (1) a complete copy of such hospital's most-recently completed Internal Revenue Service form 990, including all parts and schedules; and (2) in the form and manner prescribed by the unit, data compiled to prepare such hospital's community health needs assessment, as required pursuant to Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, provided such copy and data submitted pursuant to this subsection shall not include: (A) Individual patient information, including, but not limited to, patient-identifiable information; (B) information that is not owned or controlled by such hospital; (C) information that such hospital is contractually required to keep confidential or that is prohibited from disclosure by a data use agreement; or (D) information concerning research on human subjects as described in section 45 CFR 46.101 et seq., as amended from time to time.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-649
(P.A. 89-371, S. 7; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-2, S. 12, 27; P.A. 93-44, S. 7, 24; 93-229, S. 7, 21; 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 03-266, S. 1; P.A. 06-64, S. 13; P.A. 07-149, S. 7; P.A. 11-44, S. 174; P.A. 12-170, S. 3; P.A. 13-234, S. 147; P.A. 15-242, S. 70; P.A. 18-91, S. 38.)
Amended by P.A. 15-0242, S. 70 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2015.