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House Journal: Page 1980: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

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 1   funds appropriated to the state university of Iowa
 2   general education fund and allocated to the university
 3   for the college of medicine.  The state university of
 4   Iowa shall transfer from the allocation for the
 5   college of medicine to the department of human
 6   services, on a monthly basis, an amount equal to the
 7   additional supplemental payments made during the
 8   previous month pursuant to this paragraph.  A
 9   qualifying hospital receiving supplemental payments
10   pursuant to this paragraph that are greater than the
11   state appropriation made to the qualifying hospital
12   for treatment of indigent patients as provided in
13   chapter 255 shall be obligated as a condition of its
14   participation in the medical assistance program to
15   transfer to the state university of Iowa general
16   education fund on a monthly basis an amount equal to
17   the funds transferred by the state university of Iowa
18   to the department of human services.  To the extent
19   that state funds appropriated to the state university
20   of Iowa and allocated to the college of medicine have
21   been transferred to the department of human services
22   as a result of these supplemental payments made to the
23   qualifying hospital, the department shall not,
24   directly or indirectly, recoup these supplemental
25   payments made to a qualifying hospital for any reason,
26   unless an equivalent amount of the funds transferred
27   to the department of human services by the state
28   university of Iowa pursuant to this paragraph is
29   transferred to the qualifying hospital by the
30   department.
31     Continuation of the supplemental disproportionate
32   share and supplemental indirect medical education
33   adjustment shall preserve the funds available to the
34   university hospital for medical and surgical treatment
35   of indigent patients as provided in chapter 255 and to
36   the state university of Iowa for educational purposes
37   at the same level as provided by the state funds
38   initially appropriated for that purpose.
39     The department of human services shall, in any
40   compilation of data or other report distributed to the
41   public concerning payments to providers under the
42   medical assistance program, set forth reimbursements
43   to a qualifying hospital through the supplemental
44   disproportionate share and supplemental indirect
45   medical education adjustment as a separate item and
46   shall not include such payments in the amounts
47   otherwise reported as the reimbursement to a
48   qualifying hospital for services to medical assistance
49   recipients.
50     For purposes of this section, "supplemental

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