La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § I-15901
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
Section I-15901 - DefinitionsA. Act 819 (the Act) defines primary service area of a rural hospital as the smaller of either a radius of 25 miles from the rural hospital main campus or the number of postal zip codes, commencing with the rural hospital's zip code, in which 75 percent of a rural hospital's patients reside, as determined by using data derived from the hospital's most recent 12 month Medicare cost reporting period. In determining the primary service area, each outpatient encounter and each inpatient stay shall be viewed as a separate patient, and the zip code attributable to the patient shall be the zip code of the patient at the time of the inpatient stay or outpatient encounter. The term primary service area does not include the cities of Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Bossier City, Covington, Hammond, Houma, Kenner, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Mandeville, Monroe, New Iberia, New Orleans, Opelousas, Ponchatoula, Ruston, Shreveport, Slidell, Thibodaux, or West Monroe.B.Rural hospital shall be defined as provided for in R.S.40:1300.143, as such law existed on April 1, 2006.La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § I-15901
Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of the Secretary, Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health, LR 34:89 (January 2008).AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1306-1310.