House Journal: Page 1068: Tuesday, March 28, 2000
1 unless an equivalent amount of the funds transferred
2 to the department of human services by a qualifying
3 hospital pursuant to this provision is transferred to
4 the qualifying hospital by the department.
5 If the state supplemental amount allotted to the
6 state of Iowa for the federal fiscal year beginning
7 October 1, 2000, and ending September 30, 2001,
8 pursuant to section 1923(f)(3) of the federal Social
9 Security Act, as amended, or pursuant to federal
10 payments for indirect medical education is greater
11 than the amount necessary to fund the federal share of
12 the supplemental payments specified in the preceding
13 paragraph, the department of human services shall
14 increase the supplemental disproportionate share or
15 supplemental indirect medical education adjustment by
16 the lesser of the amount necessary to utilize fully
17 the state supplemental amount or the amount of state
18 funds appropriated to the state university of Iowa
19 general education fund and allocated to the university
20 for the college of medicine. The state university of
21 Iowa shall transfer from the allocation for the
22 college of medicine to the department of human
23 services, on a monthly basis, an amount equal to the
24 additional supplemental payments made during the
25 previous month pursuant to this paragraph. A
26 qualifying hospital receiving supplemental payments
27 pursuant to this paragraph that are greater than the
28 state appropriation made to the qualifying hospital
29 for treatment of indigent patients as provided in
30 chapter 255 shall be obligated as a condition of its
31 participation in the medical assistance program to
32 transfer to the state university of Iowa general
33 education fund on a monthly basis an amount equal to
34 the funds transferred by the state university of Iowa
35 to the department of human services. To the extent
36 that state funds appropriated to the state university
37 of Iowa and allocated to the college of medicine have
38 been transferred to the department of human services
39 as a result of these supplemental payments made to the
40 qualifying hospital, the department shall not,
41 directly or indirectly, recoup these supplemental
42 payments made to a qualifying hospital for any reason,
43 unless an equivalent amount of the funds transferred
44 to the department of human services by the state
45 university of Iowa pursuant to this paragraph is
46 transferred to the qualifying hospital by the
47 department.
48 Continuation of the supplemental disproportionate
49 share and supplemental indirect medical education
50 adjustment shall preserve the funds available to the
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