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      Sec. 17b-234. (Formerly Sec. 17-308). State payment toward support of patients at Newington Children's Hospital. The Department of Social Services shall notify the Newington Children's Hospital of each referral for whom said department can apply for federal matching grants. Newington Children's Hospital shall charge the Department of Social Services for said eligible referrals only and shall retain all such payments received from the department. Such payments by the state shall be in lieu of all other payments to said hospital by the state or any town in this state except payments by the Department of Social Services as provided in this section, the State Board of Education or the Department of Public Health. Such payments shall not prevent payments to said hospital from private sources for the care and support of any child in said hospital or for the balance of such operating expense. The Office of Health Care Access, in establishing rates to be charged by the Newington Children's Hospital, shall not include the grant made to said hospital pursuant to this section. In order to be eligible for the grant authorized by this section, the Newington Children's Hospital shall cooperate with The University of Connecticut Health Center in order to provide consolidated and coordinated pediatric services.

      (June, 1949, 1951, 1953, S. 1441d; November, 1955, S. N167, N168; 1957, P.A. 550, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 610, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 460, S. 1; P.A. 73-117, S. 20; 73-273, S. 1, 3; P.A. 74-182, S. 2, 3; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 608, 610; P.A. 79-560, S. 24, 39; P.A. 81-430, S. 1, 3; P.A. 82-91, S. 31, 38; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-32, S. 5, 8; P.A. 84-442, S. 1, 2; P.A. 88-281, S. 1, 4; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 39, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 20, 88.)

      History: 1959 act changed name of hospital, increased per cent of operating expenses paid from 25% to 26% and added provision re per capita operating expense for preceding year; 1961 act increased portion of operating expense paid to 28% and deleted exclusion, when calculating operating expense, for expense of operation of farm; P.A. 73-117 replaced hospital cost commission with committee established under Sec. 17-311; P.A. 73-273 reduced state payment by amount paid by welfare department for services to children for whom said department receives federal matching grants and added provisions re notice to hospital of eligible referrals and charges pertaining in such cases; P.A. 74-182 changed payments' basis from year ending June thirtieth to year ending September thirtieth as of July 1, 1974, and required determination of payment amount on or before July 1, 1974, adding provisions for making determination and adjustments; P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare department with department of social services; P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services and replaced department of social services with department of income maintenance, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-560 replaced references to committee established under Sec. 17-311 with references to commissioner of income maintenance; P.A. 81-430 lowered state's payment for support of children admitted to the hospital from 28% to 42% of the hospital's operating cost; P.A. 82-91 added Subsec. (a) which provided that, for fiscal years 82-83 and 83-84, the state grant to Newington Children's Hospital shall be the lesser of $1,000,000 or the amount by which 24% of the hospital's operating expense exceeds payments to it by the department of income maintenance, that the hospital shall retain all payments from said department, that the state grant shall be in lieu of all other payments by the state or any town, except payments by said department or the state board of education and that commission on hospitals and health care shall not include grant in establishing rates and specified that, in order to be eligible for state grant the hospital shall cooperate with The University of Connecticut health center in order to provide consolidated, coordinated pediatric services; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-32 amended Subsec. (a) which reduced the grant to the Newington Children's Hospital from $1,000,000 to $750,000 and excepted payments by the department of health services from the provision that the state grant shall be in lieu of all other payments; P.A. 84-442 deleted Subsec. (b) which would, effective July 1, 1984, establish the state's payment to the hospital at 24% of the hospital's operating expenses, and applied provisions formerly designated as Subsec. (a) to fiscal year commencing July 1, 1984, and each year thereafter; P.A. 88-281 changed the amount of the annual grant, on behalf of the department of health services, to the hospital from the lesser of $750,000 or the amount by which 24% of the operating expense of said hospital exceeds payments to said hospital by the department of income maintenance "for services to children for whom said department receives federal matching grants" to "the amount appropriated to the department for the purposes of such grant" and repealed method for determination of "operating expense"; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-308 transferred to Sec. 17b-234 in 1995; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8 deleted obsolete provision re grants to Newington Children's Hospital, effective July 1, 1997.

      Annotation to former section 17-308:

      Cited. 33 CA 673.