CHAPTER 6. HOSPITAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE LAW
IC 16-21-6
Chapter 6. Hospital Financial Disclosure Law
IC 16-21-6-0.1
Contractual allowances defined
Sec. 0.1. As used in this chapter, "contractual allowances" means
the difference between revenue at established rates and amounts
realizable from third party payors under contractual agreements.
As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.12.
IC 16-21-6-0.2
Education related costs defined
Sec. 0.2. As used in this chapter, "education related costs" means
the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing, funding, or
otherwise financially supporting educational benefits, services, and
programs, including:
(1) education of physicians, nurses, technicians, and other
medical professionals and health care providers;
(2) provision of scholarships and funding to medical schools
and other postsecondary educational institutions for health
professions education;
(3) education of patients concerning diseases and home care in
response to community needs; and
(4) community health education through informational
programs, publications, and outreach activities in response to
community needs.
As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.2-2007,
SEC.189.
IC 16-21-6-1
Gross patient revenue defined
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "gross patient revenue" means
inpatient and outpatient revenue from services to patients, including
payments received from or on behalf of individual patients.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.
IC 16-21-6-2
Net patient revenue defined
Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "net patient revenue" means gross
patient revenue less deductions for contractual adjustments, bad
debts, and charity.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.
IC 16-21-6-3
Fiscal reports; required documentation
Sec. 3. (a) Each hospital shall file with the state department a
report for the preceding fiscal year within one hundred twenty (120)
days after the end of the hospital's fiscal year. The state department
shall grant an extension of the time to file the report if the hospital
shows good cause for the extension. The report must contain the
following:
(1) A copy of the hospital's balance sheet, including a statement
describing the hospital's total assets and total liabilities.
(2) A copy of the hospital's income statement.
(3) A statement of changes in financial position.
(4) A statement of changes in fund balance.
(5) Accountant notes pertaining to the report.
(6) A copy of the hospital's report required to be filed annually
under 42 U.S.C. 1395g, and other appropriate utilization and
financial reports required to be filed under federal statutory law.
(7) Net patient revenue.
(8) A statement including:
(A) Medicare gross revenue;
(B) Medicaid gross revenue;
(C) other revenue from state programs;
(D) revenue from local government programs;
(E) local tax support;
(F) charitable contributions;
(G) other third party payments;
(H) gross inpatient revenue;
(I) gross outpatient revenue;
(J) contractual allowance;
(K) any other deductions from revenue;
(L) charity care provided;
(M) itemization of bad debt expense; and
(N) an estimation of the unreimbursed cost of subsidized
health services.
(9) A statement itemizing donations.
(10) A statement describing the total cost of reimbursed and
unreimbursed research.
(11) A statement describing the total cost of reimbursed and
unreimbursed education separated into the following categories:
(A) Education of physicians, nurses, technicians, and other
medical professionals and health care providers.
(B) Scholarships and funding to medical schools, and other
postsecondary educational institutions for health professions
education.
(C) Education of patients concerning diseases and home care
in response to community needs.
(D) Community health education through informational
programs, publications, and outreach activities in response
to community needs.
(E) Other educational services resulting in education related
costs.
(b) The information in the report filed under subsection (a) must
be provided from reports or audits certified by an independent
certified public accountant or by the state board of accounts.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.94-1994, SEC.14;
P.L.2-2007, SEC.190.
IC 16-21-6-4
Repealed
(Repealed by P.L.1-2010, SEC.156.)
IC 16-21-6-5
Fiscal reports; further verifying information
Sec. 5. If further fiscal information is necessary to verify the
accuracy of any information contained in the reports filed under
section 3 of this chapter, the state department may require the facility
to produce the records necessary to verify that information.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.
IC 16-21-6-6
Patient information reports
Sec. 6. In addition to the report filed under section 3 of this
chapter, each hospital shall, not more than one hundred twenty (120)
days after the end of each calendar quarter, file with the state
department, or the state department's designated contractor, inpatient
and outpatient discharge information at the patient level, in a format
prescribed by the state health commissioner, including the following:
(1) The patient's:
(A) length of stay;
(B) diagnoses and surgical procedures performed during the
patient's stay;
(C) date of:
(i) admission;
(ii) discharge; and
(iii) birth;
(D) type of admission;
(E) admission source;
(F) gender;
(G) race;
(H) discharge disposition; and
(I) payor, including:
(i) Medicare;
(ii) Medicaid;
(iii) a local government program;
(iv) commercial insurance;
(v) self-pay; and
(vi) charity care.
(2) The total charge for the patient's stay.
(3) The ZIP code of the patient's residence.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.94-1994, SEC.15;
P.L.44-2002, SEC.3.
IC 16-21-6-7
Fiscal and patient information reports; personal identification of
patients; public inspection; copies
Sec. 7. (a) The reports filed under section 3 of this chapter:
(1) may not contain information that personally identifies a
patient or a consumer of health services; and
(2) must be open to public inspection.
(b) The state department shall provide copies of the reports filed
under section 3 of this chapter to the public upon request, at the state
department's actual cost.
(c) The following apply to information that is filed under section
6 of this chapter:
(1) Information filed with the state department's designated
contractor:
(A) is confidential; and
(B) must be transferred by the contractor to the state
department in a format determined by the state department.
(2) Information filed with the state department or transferred to
the state department by the state department's designated
contractor is not confidential, except that information that:
(A) personally identifies; or
(B) may be used to personally identify;
a patient or consumer may not be disclosed to a third party other
than to a hospital that has filed inpatient and outpatient
discharge information.
(d) An analysis completed by the state department of information
that is filed under section 6 of this chapter:
(1) may not contain information that personally identifies or
may be used to personally identify a patient or consumer of
health services, unless the information is determined by the
state department to be necessary for a public health activity;
(2) must be open to public inspection; and
(3) must be provided to the public by the state department upon
request at the state department's actual cost.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.44-2002, SEC.4;
P.L.78-2004, SEC.22.
IC 16-21-6-8
Compliance; injunctive relief
Sec. 8. The state department may, through the attorney general,
seek to compel compliance with this chapter through injunctive
relief.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.
IC 16-21-6-9
Rules; uniform reporting system
Sec. 9. (a) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2
necessary to carry out this chapter.
(b) The rules adopted under this section must include rules that
establish a uniform system for completing the reports required under
sections 3 and 6 of this chapter.
(c) The rules adopted under this section must provide that, to the
greatest extent possible, copies of reports required to be filed with
federal, state, and local agencies may be used by facilities in
completing the reports required by this chapter.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.
IC 16-21-6-10
State health commissioner; findings and recommendations; report
Sec. 10. Each year the state health commissioner or the
commissioner's designee shall make a compilation of the data
obtained from the reports required under sections 3 and 6 of this
chapter and report in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 the
findings and recommendations to the general assembly not later than
December 1 of the year the reports are filed. However, the
commissioner is not required to incorporate a report that is required
to be filed by a hospital with the state department less than one
hundred twenty (120) days before December 1, but shall incorporate
the report data in the report to be made the following year.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.28-2004, SEC.136.
IC 16-21-6-11
Consumer guide to Indiana hospitals
Sec. 11. (a) The state department shall annually publish a
consumer guide to Indiana hospitals. The state department shall
compile the data for the consumer guide from the relevant data
required to be filed under sections 3 and 6 of this chapter and publish
the data in an understandable format that assists the consuming
public in making both financial and utilization comparisons between
hospitals.
(b) The state department shall, upon request, provide to the
public, at the state department's actual cost, copies of the consumer
guide to Indiana hospitals published under subsection (a).
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.
IC 16-21-6-12
Violations
Sec. 12. Any person who is a custodian of confidential data at the
state department and who knowingly or intentionally:
(1) discloses, distributes, or sells confidential data obtained
under this chapter; or
(2) identifies a specific patient in violation of section 7 of this
chapter;
commits a Class B misdemeanor.
As added by P.L.94-1994, SEC.16.