California Welfare and Institutions Code § 14163

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Public entity” means a county, a city, a city and county, the State of California, the University of California, a local health care district, a local health authority, or any other political subdivision of the state. (2) “Hospital” means a health facility that is licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code to provide acute inpatient hospital services, and includes all components of the facility. (3) “Disproportionate share hospital” means a hospital providing acute inpatient services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries that meets the criteria for disproportionate share status relating to acute inpatient services set forth in Section 14105.98. (4) “Disproportionate share list” means the annual list of disproportionate share hospitals for acute inpatient services issued by the department pursuant to Section 14105.98. (5) “Fund” means the Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund. (6) “Eligible hospital” means, for a particular state fiscal year, a hospital on the disproportionate share list that is eligible to receive payment adjustment amounts under Section 14105.98 with respect to that state fiscal year. (7) “Transfer year” means the particular state fiscal year during which, or with respect to which, public entities are required by this section to make an intergovernmental transfer of funds to the Controller. (8) “Transferor entity” means a public entity that, with respect to a particular transfer year, is required by this section to make an intergovernmental transfer of funds to the Controller. (9) “Transfer amount” means an amount of intergovernmental transfer of funds that this section requires for a particular transferor entity with respect to a particular transfer year. (10) “Intergovernmental transfer” means a transfer of funds from a public entity to the state that is local government financial participation in Medi-Cal pursuant to the terms of this section. (11) “Licensee” means an entity that has been issued a license to operate a hospital by the department. (12) “Annualized Medi-Cal inpatient paid days” means the total number of Medi-Cal acute inpatient hospital days, regardless of dates of service, for which payment was made by or on behalf of the department to a hospital, under present or previous ownership, during the most recent calendar year ending prior to the beginning of a particular transfer year, including all Medi-Cal acute inpatient covered days of care for hospitals that are paid on a different basis than per diem payments. (13) “Medi-Cal acute inpatient hospital day” means any acute inpatient day of service attributable to patients who, for those days, were eligible for medical assistance under the California state plan, including any day of service that is reimbursed on a basis other than per diem payments. (14) “OBRA 1993 payment limitation” means the hospital-specific limitation on the total annual amount of payment adjustments to each eligible hospital under the payment adjustment program that can be made with federal financial participation under Section 1396r-4(g) of Title 42 of the United States Code as implemented pursuant to the Medi-Cal State Plan. (b) The Medi-Cal Inpatient Payment Adjustment Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the fund shall be continuously appropriated to, and under the administrative control of, the department for the purposes specified in subdivision (d). The fund shall consist of the following: (1) Transfer amounts collected by the Controller under this section, whether submitted by transferor entities pursuant to applicable provisions of this section or obtained by offset pursuant to subdivision (j). (2) Any other intergovernmental transfers deposited in the fund, as permitted by Section 14164 or Article 5.17 (commencing 

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