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135-78
135.78 DATA TO BE COMPILED.
The department shall compile all relevant financial and
utilization data in order to have available the statistical
information necessary to properly monitor hospital and health care
facility charges and costs. Such data shall include necessary
operating expenses, appropriate expenses incurred for rendering
services to patients who cannot or do not pay, all properly incurred
interest charges, and reasonable depreciation expenses based on the
expected useful life of the property and equipment involved. The
department shall also obtain from each hospital and health care
facility a current rate schedule as well as any subsequent amendments
or modifications of that schedule as it may require. In collection
of the data required by this section and sections 135.74 through
135.76, the department and other state agencies shall coordinate
their reporting requirements.
Section History: Early Form
[C79, 81, § 135.78]
Section History: Recent Form
2002 Acts, ch 1119, §14; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §34
Referred to in § 135.79, 135.83, 135.164