Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R432 - Health Care Facility Licensing
Rule R432-104 - Specialty Hospital-Long-Term Acute Care
Section R432-104-6 - Hospital Located Within an Acute Care Hospital
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
If an LTAC is located within a licensed acute care hospital, the licensee shall:
(1) have a separate governing body, chief executive officer, chief medical officer, and medical staff from the co-located hospital;
(2) perform basic functions independently from the host hospital;
(3) incur not more than 15% of its total inpatient operating costs for items and services supplied by the host hospital;
(4) admit 75% of patients from sources other than the host hospital;
(5) maintain admission and discharge records separately from those of the hospital where it is co-located;
(6) not commingle beds with host hospital beds; and
(7) be serviced by the same Medicare fiscal intermediary as the host hospital.