2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-644. (Formerly Sec. 19a-161). Annual reports of short-term acute care general or children\'s hospitals. Regulations on affiliation or control of health care facilities and institutions. Required reporting of audited financial statements.
Sec. 19a-644. (Formerly Sec. 19a-161). Annual reports of short-term acute
care general or children's hospitals. Regulations on affiliation or control of health
care facilities and institutions. Required reporting of audited financial statements.
(a) On or before February twenty-eighth annually, for the fiscal year ending on September thirtieth of the immediately preceding year, each short-term acute care general or
children's hospital shall report to the office with respect to its operations in such fiscal
year, in such form as the office may by regulation require. Such report shall include:
(1) Average salaries in each department of administrative personnel, supervisory personnel and direct service personnel by job classification; (2) salaries and fringe benefits for
the ten highest paid positions; (3) the name of each joint venture, partnership, subsidiary
and corporation related to the hospital; and (4) the salaries paid to hospital employees
by each such joint venture, partnership, subsidiary and related corporation and by the
hospital to the employees of related corporations. In addition, such report may, at the
discretion of the office, include a breakdown of hospital and department budgets by
administrative, supervisory and direct service categories, by total dollars, by full-time
equivalent staff or any combination thereof, which the office may request at any time
of the year, provided the office gives the hospital at least thirty days from the date of
the request to provide the information.
(c) Each nonprofit short-term acute care general or children's hospital shall include in the annual report required pursuant to subsection (a) of this section a report of all transfers of assets, transfers of operations or changes of control involving its clinical or nonclinical services or functions from such hospital to a person or entity organized or operated for profit.
(d) The Office of Health Care Access shall require each hospital licensed by the Department of Public Health, that is not subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, to report to said office on its operations in the preceding fiscal year by filing copies of the hospital's audited financial statements. Such report shall be due at said office on or before the close of business on the last business day of the fifth month following the month in which a hospital's fiscal year ends.
(P.A. 73-117, S. 28, 31; P.A. 81-465, S. 16, 18; P.A. 83-3, S. 4, 5; P.A. 84-57, S. 3, 4; P.A. 86-61, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-371, S. 19; P.A. 91-125; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 119, 130; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 98-150, S. 15, 17; P.A. 99-172, S. 4, 7; P.A. 02-101, S. 2, 3; P.A. 03-278, S. 76; P.A. 04-258, S. 22.)
History: P.A. 81-465 changed deadline for initial report from December 31, 1974, to February 28, 1982; Sec. 19-73s transferred to Sec. 19a-161 in 1983; P.A. 83-3 added reference to Sec. 19a-157; P.A. 84-57 specified that reports must be "in such form as the commission may by regulation require"; P.A. 86-61 required facilities issued rate orders to submit reports and made technical changes; P.A. 89-371 made technical changes, added reference to Secs. 19a-167 to 19a-167g, inclusive, and removed obsolete language; P.A. 91-125 added Subdivs. (1) to (5), inclusive, listing five specific items of information to be included in the report; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 replaced revenue caps with revenue limits and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-161 transferred to Sec. 19a-644 in 1997; P.A. 98-150 added Subsec. (b) re regulations on affiliation or control, effective June 5, 1998; P.A. 99-172 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change and to expand budget reporting and make it in the discretion of the office, and amended Subsec. (b) by changing "parent" to "persons or parent", changing "an affiliate" to "any type of affiliate", changing "fifty per cent" to "an aggregate of fifty per cent", adding references to "person", "provider" and "combination of health care providers or related persons", and adding definition of "affiliate", effective June 23, 1999; P.A. 02-101 amended Subsec. (a) to make the reporting requirements applicable to short-term acute care general or children's hospitals by deleting "each health care facility and institution for which a budget was approved or revenue limits were established under the provisions of section 19a-640 or section 19a-674" and added Subsec. (c) re reporting of hospital's audited financial records, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 03-278 made technical changes in Subsec. (a), effective July 9, 2003; P.A. 04-258 added new Subsec. (c) requiring nonprofit short-term acute care general or children's hospital to include in annual report required by Subsec. (a) a report of all transfers of assets or operations and changes in control of clinical and nonclinical services to a for-profit entity and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (d), effective July 1, 2004.
See Sec. 19a-630a re further definition of "affiliate".
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