2020 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 108A - Social Services
Article 7A - Hospital Assessment Act.
§ 108A-131 - (Effective July 1, 2021 see note) Definitions.
108A-131. (Effective July 1, 2021 - see note) Definitions.
The following definitions apply in this Article:
(1) Base assessment. - The assessment payable under G.S. 108A-142.
(2) CMS. - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
(3) Critical access hospital. - As defined in 42 C.F.R. 400.202.
(4) Department. - The Department of Health and Human Services.
(5) Prepaid health plan. - As defined in G.S. 108D-1.
(6) Public hospital. - A hospital that certifies its public expenditures to the Department pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 433.51(b) during the fiscal year for which the assessment applies.
(7) Secretary. - The Secretary of Health and Human Services.
(8) State's annual Medicaid payment. - An annual amount equal to one hundred ten million dollars ($110,000,000) for the taxable year October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021, increased each year over the prior year's payment by the percentage specified as the Medicare Market Basket Index less productivity most recently published in the Federal Register.
(9) Supplemental assessment. - The assessment payable under G.S. 108A-141.
(10) Total hospital costs. - The costs as calculated using the most recent available Hospital Cost Report Information System's cost report data available through CMS or other comparable data, including both inpatient and outpatient components, for all hospitals that are not exempt from the applicable assessment.
(2020-88, s. 15.1(b).)
