Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R432 - Health Care Facility Licensing
Rule R432-750 - Hospice Rule
Section R432-750-28 - Safeguards for Patients Funds and Valuables

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 432-750-28

Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024

(1) The licensee shall safeguard patient cash resources, personal property, and valuables that have been entrusted to the licensee or hospice staff.

(2) A licensee is not required to handle patient's cash resources or valuables. However, if the licensee accepts a patient's cash resources or valuables, then the licensee shall safeguard the patient's cash resources in accordance with the following:

(a) no licensee or hospice staff member may use patient funds or valuables as their own or mingle them with own;

(b) patient funds and valuables shall be separated, intact, and free from any liability that the licensee incurs in the use of their own or the institution's funds and valuables;

(c) the licensee shall maintain accurate records of patient funds and valuables entrusted to the licensee;

(d) records of patient funds that are maintained as a drawing account shall include a control account for any receipts and expenditures, and an account for each patient and supporting receipts filed in chronological order;

(e) each account shall be kept current with columns for debits, credits, and balance;

(f) records of patient funds and other valuables entrusted to the licensee for safekeeping shall include a copy of the receipt furnished for funds received; and

(g) any money entrusted with the facility in a patient account over $150 shall be deposited in an interest-bearing account in a local financial institution within five days of receipt.

(3) Each licensee shall maintain a separate account for patient funds specific to that inpatient hospice and shall not commingle with patient funds from another inpatient hospice.

(4) Upon discharge, a patient's money and valuables, that have been entrusted to the licensee, shall be returned to the patient that day. Money and valuables kept in an interest-bearing account shall be available to the patient within three working days.

(5) Within 30 days following the death of a patient, except in a medical examiner case, the patient's money and valuables entrusted to the licensee shall be surrendered to the responsible persons, or to the administrator of the estate.

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