La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § I-15903

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section I-15903 - Determining the Smaller of the Two Primary Service Area Definitions

A. The Department of Health and Hospitals proposes the following process to determine if the hospital's primary service area is the smaller of either the 25 miles radius of the rural hospital or the number of postal zip codes, commencing with the rural hospital's zip code, in which 75 percent of a 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.

1.Primary service area will be defined as the 25 mile radius of the rural hospital unless a formal request is made in writing to the Department of Health and Hospital's Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health for a determination on the smaller of the two primary service area definitions. The request must include the legal name and address of the entity requesting the determination, the name and address of the rural hospital impacted by the request and the type of healthcare facility that seeks to locate in the service area of the rural hospital. Requests for this primary service area determination will be sent to DHH-Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health.

2. Within 30 days of receipt of the written request for a primary service area determination, the Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will request cost report data with service area zip codes from the rural hospital identified in the request. Cost report data will be required to be submitted to the Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health within 30 days of the bureau's request.

3. Within 30 days of receipt of this cost report data, the Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will geocode and map the zip codes of the cost report data to assess the primary service area of the rural hospital. The results of this analysis will be provided to the party issuing the request for the primary service area determination and the rural hospital impacted by the request.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § I-15903

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.