2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 12 - Taxation
Chapter 211a - Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgical Centers Taxes
Section 12-263a - Definitions.

As used in sections 12-263a to 12-263e, inclusive:

(1) “Hospital” means any health care facility or institution, as defined in section 19a-630, which is licensed as a short-term general hospital by the Department of Public Health but does not include (A) any hospital which, on October 1, 1997, is within the class of hospitals licensed by the department as children’s general hospitals, or (B) a short-term acute hospital operated exclusively by the state other than a short-term acute hospital operated by the state as a receiver pursuant to chapter 920;

(2) “Net patient revenue” means the amount of accrued payments earned by a hospital for the provision of inpatient and outpatient services;

(3) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Revenue Services;

(4) “Department” means the Department of Revenue Services.

(P.A. 94-9, S. 21, 41; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 39, 58; P.A. 97-2, S. 2, 8; P.A. 99-173, S. 31, 65; P.A. 00-174, S. 68, 83; P.A. 10-179, S. 95; P.A. 11-6, S. 145; 11-44, S. 102.)

History: P.A. 94-9 effective April 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-2 amended definition of hospital in Subdiv. (1) to exclude children’s general hospitals, effective the later of October 1, 1997, or upon the date of federal approval or federal determination that no approval is required pursuant to Sec. 19a-670a (actual effective date was October 1, 1997); P.A. 99-173 amended Subdiv. (1) to exclude short-term acute care hospitals run by the state, effective June 23, 1999, and applicable to calendar quarters commencing on or after July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-174 added Subdiv. (8) defining “patient care services”, effective May 26, 2000, and applicable to all tax periods open on said date; P.A. 10-179 amended Subdivs. (4) and (5) by replacing “Office of Health Care Access” with “Office of Health Care Access division of the Department of Public Health”; P.A. 11-6 deleted former Subdivs. (2) to (8) and added definitions of “net patient revenue”, “commissioner” and “department” in new Subdivs. (2) to (4), respectively, effective July 1, 2011, and applicable to calendar quarters commencing on or after that date; P.A. 11-44 amended Subdiv. (2) by redefining “net patient revenue”, effective July 1, 2011, and applicable to calendar quarters commencing on or after that date.

P.A. 00-174, enacted after plaintiff’s appeal was filed, clarified former Subdiv. (2) to provide that term “patient care services” included tangible personal property transferred in connection with rendering of such services; legislative history indicated that relevant provisions of act were intended to be clarifying and nonsubstantive, therefore court affirmed applicability of such clarification to pending case determining that tax on hospital’s gross earnings applied to charges for tangible personal property used in the course of providing patient care services. 265 C. 511.