135.76 - ANALYSES AND STUDIES BY DEPARTMENT.
135.76 ANALYSES AND STUDIES BY DEPARTMENT.
1. The department shall from time to time undertake analyses and
studies relating to hospital and health care facility costs and to
the financial status of hospitals or health care facilities, or both,
which are subject to the provisions of this division. It shall
further require the filing of information concerning the total
financial needs of each individual hospital or health care facility
and the resources currently or prospectively available to meet these
needs, including the effect of proposals made by health systems
agencies. The department shall also prepare and file such summaries
and compilations or other supplementary reports based on the
information filed with it as will, in its judgment, advance the
purposes of this division.
2. The analyses and studies required by this section shall be
conducted with the objective of providing a basis for determining
whether or not regulation of hospital and health care facility rates
and charges by the state of Iowa is necessary to protect the health
or welfare of the people of the state.
3. In conducting its analyses and studies, the department should
determine whether:
a. The rates charged and costs incurred by hospitals and
health care facilities are reasonably related to the services offered
by those respective groups of institutions.
b. Aggregate rates of hospitals and of health care facilities
are reasonably related to the aggregate costs incurred by those
respective groups of institutions.
c. Rates are set equitably among all purchasers or classes of
purchasers of hospital and of health care facility services.
d. The rates for particular services, supplies or materials
established by hospitals and by health care facilities are
reasonable. Determination of reasonableness of rates shall include
consideration of a fair rate of return to proprietary hospitals and
health care facilities.
4. All data gathered and compiled and all reports prepared under
this section, except privileged medical information, shall be open to
public inspection. Section History: Early Form
[C79, 81, § 135.76]
Referred to in § 135.78, 135.79, 135.83, 135.164