2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 82.71.010: Definitions. (Effective until July 1, 2007.)

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

     (1) "Department" means the department of revenue.

     (2) "Gross income" means all revenue, without deduction, that is derived from the performance of nursing facility services. "Gross income" does not include other operating revenue or nonoperating revenue.

     (3) "Other operating revenue" means income from nonpatient care services to patients, as well as sales and activities to persons other than patients. It is derived in the course of operating the facility, such as providing personal laundry service for patients, or from other sources such as meals provided to persons other than patients, personal telephones, gift shops, and vending machine commissions.

     (4) "Nonoperating revenue" means income from activities not relating directly to the day-to-day operations of an organization. "Nonoperating revenue" includes such items as gains on disposal of a facility's assets, dividends, and interest from security investments, gifts, grants, and endowments.

     (5) "Patient day" means a calendar day of care provided to a nursing facility resident, excluding a medicare patient day. Patient days include the day of admission and exclude the day of discharge; except that, when admission and discharge occur on the same day, one day of care shall be deemed to exist.

     (6) "Medicare patient day" means a patient day for medicare beneficiaries on a medicare Part A stay and a patient day for persons who have opted for managed care coverage using their medicare benefit.

     (7) "Nonexempt nursing facility" means a nursing facility that is not exempt from the quality maintenance fee under *RCW 74.46.091.

     (8) "Nursing facility" has the same meaning as the term is defined in RCW 18.51.010; it does not include a boarding home as defined in RCW 18.20.020 or an adult family home as defined in RCW 70.128.010.

     (9) "Nursing facility operator" means a person who engages in the business of operating a nursing facility or facilities within this state.

     (10) "Nursing facility services" means health-related services to individuals who do not require hospital care, but whose mental or physical condition requires services that are above the level of room and board and can be made available only through institutional facilities.

[2003 1st sp.s. c 16 § 1.]

*Reviser's note: RCW 74.46.091 was repealed by 2006 c 241 § 1, effective July 1, 2007.      Contingent expiration date -- Severability -- Effective date -- 2003 1st sp.s. c 16: See notes following RCW 82.71.020.