Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
The types of ASH data which hospitals must submit to the
Department of State Health Services (department) through the online survey form
are as follows:
(1) reporting period
data reflecting the 12-month period covering the hospital's most recently
completed fiscal year;
(2)
organizational structure data reflecting the organization that is responsible
for establishing policy for the overall operation of the hospital; the
organization that owns the hospital's physical plant; the organization's
affiliation with the hospital and any hospital systems of which the hospital is
a part; and the type of service provided to the majority of
admissions;
(3) financial data
about a facility's revenues and expenses. Financial data is based on the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Hospital Audit Guide and on
generally accepted accounting principles for hospitals and is extracted from
the hospital's most recent annual financial statements as follows:
(A) total gross revenue, including Medicare
and Medicaid gross revenue, other revenue from state programs, revenue from
local government programs, local tax support, charitable contributions, other
third party payments, gross inpatient revenue and gross outpatient
revenue;
(B) total deductions from
gross revenue, including contractual allowances and any other
deductions;
(C) net patient
revenue;
(D) charity
care;
(E) bad debt expense;
and
(F) total assets and
liabilities;
(4)
utilization data about the use of a facility and/or its services, including:
(A) total admissions, including Medicare
admissions and Medicaid admissions, admissions under a local government
program, charity care admissions, and any other type of admission;
(B) total discharges;
(C) total patient days;
(D) average length of stay; and
(E) total outpatient visits; and
(5) additional data as follows:
(A) estimates of unreimbursed costs of
subsidized health services reported separately as emergency and trauma care,
neonatal intensive care, freestanding community clinics, collaborative efforts
with local government or private agencies in preventive medicine, and other
subsidized health services;
(B)
donations;
(C) total cost of
reimbursed and unreimbursed research; and
(D) total cost of reimbursed and unreimbursed
education separated into the following categories: education of physicians,
nurses, technicians, and other medical professionals and health care providers;
scholarships and funding to medical schools, colleges, and universities for
health professions education; education of patients concerning diseases and
home care in response to community needs; community health education through
informational programs, publications, and outreach activities in response to
community needs; and other educational services that satisfy the definition of
"education-related costs" under Health and Safety Code, §
311.031(6).
