2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-667. (Formerly Sec. 19a-168v). Uncompensated care pool termination. Final settlement.

      Sec. 19a-667. (Formerly Sec. 19a-168v). Uncompensated care pool termination. Final settlement. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 19a-168 to 19a-168f, inclusive, the uncompensated care pool shall terminate effective 12:00 a.m., April 1, 1994. The termination of the uncompensated care pool shall not impair or affect any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or any obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to April 1, 1994, under chapter 368c of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to 1993, as amended, and the same may be enjoyed, asserted and enforced, as fully and to the same extent and in the same manner as they might under the laws existing prior to said date, and all matters civil or criminal pending on said date or instituted thereafter for any act done, offense committed, right accruing, accrued, or acquired, or obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred prior to said date may be continued or instituted under and in accordance with the provisions of the law in force at the time of the commission of said act done, offense committed, right accruing, accrued, or acquired, or obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred.

      (b) (1) Final settlement of all obligations and liabilities of the uncompensated care pool shall be no later than June 15, 1995. All uncompensated care pool assessments and other liabilities of hospitals for the period ending March 31, 1994, based on the assessable accounts receivable as of March 31, 1994, shall be paid and all uncompensated care pool payments to hospitals attributable to the period ending March 31, 1994, shall be made no later than June 15, 1995. The amount, if any, by which assessments and other liabilities exceed payments shall be credited to the resources of the General Fund. (2) Following the final resolution of an action pending in the United States district court for the district of Connecticut entitled New England Health Care Union, District 1199, SEIU, AFL-CIO; et al v. Mt. Sinai Hospital et al, No. 92-CU-1012, any additional amounts owed to the state from hospitals as a result of payments that the hospitals are entitled to receive for patient care services following the resolution of such action shall be due and payable to the state no later than one month following receipt of such payments by the hospital. Such amount shall be deposited into the General Fund and credited to the reconciliation account established pursuant to section 19a-683.

      (P.A. 94-9, S. 3, 41; P.A. 95-160, S. 56, 69; P.A. 96-139, S. 12, 13; P.A. 02-89, S. 37.)

      History: P.A. 94-9 effective April 1, 1994; P.A. 95-160 added Subsec. (c) re final settlement of all obligations and liabilities of the uncompensated care pool, effective June 1, 1995; P.A. 96-139 changed effective date of P.A. 95-160 but without affecting this section; Sec. 19a-168v transferred to Sec. 19a-667 in 1997; P.A. 02-89 deleted as obsolete Subsec. (b) requiring the Treasurer on April 1, 1994, to transfer a portion of the funds in the pool to a separate account to be used for debt service and to transfer all remaining funds and assets of the pool to the General Fund and providing for the handling of revenues received and payments made between April 1, 1994, and April 12, 1994, and redesignated Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (b).