Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 101 Part 2.djvu/848

 101 STAT. 1330-54

PUBLIC LAW 100-203—DEC. 22, 1987

would result in financial hardship (in particular with respect to a small percentage of medicare volume), (c) DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.—

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(1) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide for a 3-year demonstration project to develop, and determine the costs and benefits of establishing a uniform system for the reporting by medicare participating hospitals of balance sheet and information described in paragraph (2), In contracting the project, the Secretary shall require hospitals in at least 2 States, one of which maintains a uniform hospital reporting system, to report such information based on standard information established by the Secretary. (2) The information described in this paragraph is as follows: (A) Hospital discharges (classified by category of service and by class of primary payer). (B) Patient days (classified by category of service and by class of primary payer). (C) Licensed beds, staffed beds, and occupancy (by category of service). (D) Outpatient visits (classified by class of primary payer). (E) Inpatient charges and revenues (classified by clsiss of primary payer). (F) Outpatient charges and revenues (classified by class of primary payer). (G) Inpatient and outpatient hospital expenses (by costcenter classifled for operating and capital). (H) Reasonable costs. (I) Other income. (J) Uncompensated care (classified by bad debt and charity care). (K) Capital acquisitions. (L) Capital assets. (3) The Secretary shall develop the system under subsection (c) in a manner so as— (A) to facilitate the submittal of the information in the report in an electronic form, and (B) to be compatible with the needs of the medicare prospective payment system. (4) The Secretary shall prepare and submit, to the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, the Comptroller General, the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, by not later than 45 days after the end of each calendar quarter, data collected under the system. (5) In paragraph (3): (A) The terms "bad debt" and "charity care" have such meanings as the Secretary establishes. (B) The term "class" means, with respect to payers, the programs under this title VIII of the Social Security Act, a State plan approved under title XIX of such Act, other third party-payers, and self-paying individuals. (6) 21 The Secretary shall set aside at least $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1988, 1989, and 1990 from existing research funds

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