226.45 - REIMBURSEMENT TO COUNTY OR STATE.
226.45 REIMBURSEMENT TO COUNTY OR STATE.
If a patient is not receiving medical assistance under chapter
249A and the amount to the account of any patient in the patients'
personal deposit fund exceeds two hundred dollars, the business
manager of the hospital may apply any of the excess to reimburse the
county of legal settlement or the state in a case where no legal
settlement exists for liability incurred by the county or the state
for the payment of care, support and maintenance of the patient, when
billed by the county of legal settlement or by the administrator for
a patient having no legal settlement. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 226.45; 81 Acts, ch 11, § 16]
Referred to in § 222.84