California Welfare and Institutions Code § 14169.51

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Acute psychiatric days” means the total number of Medi-Cal specialty mental health service administrative days, Medi-Cal specialty mental health service acute care days, acute psychiatric administrative days, and acute psychiatric acute days identified in the Final Medi-Cal Utilization Statistics for the state fiscal year preceding the rebase calculation year as calculated by the department as of the retrieval date. (b) “Acute psychiatric per diem supplemental rate” means a fixed per diem supplemental payment for acute psychiatric days. (c) “Annual fee-for-service days” means the number of fee-for-service days of each hospital subject to the quality assurance fee, as reported on the days data source. (d) “Annual managed care days” means the number of managed care days of each hospital subject to the quality assurance fee, as reported on the days data source. (e) “Annual Medi-Cal days” means the number of Medi-Cal days of each hospital subject to the quality assurance fee, as reported on the days data source. (f) “Base calendar year” means a calendar year that ends before a subject fiscal year begins, but no more than six years before a subject fiscal year begins. Beginning with the third program period, the department shall establish the base calendar year during the rebase calculation year as the calendar year for which the most recent data is available that the department determines is reliable. (g) “Converted hospital” means a private hospital that becomes a designated public hospital or a nondesignated public hospital on or after the first day of a program period. (h) “Days data source” means either: (1) if a hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report for its fiscal year ending in the base calendar year includes data for a full fiscal year of operation, the hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report retrieved from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development as retrieved by the department on the retrieval date pursuant to Section 14169.59, for its fiscal year ending in the base calendar year; or (2) if a hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report for its fiscal year ending in the base calendar year includes data for more than one day, but less than a full year of operation, the department’s best and reasonable estimates of the hospital’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report if the hospital had operated for a full year. (i) “Department” means the State Department of Health Care Services. (j) “Designated public hospital” shall have the meaning given in subdivision (d) of Section 14166.1. (k) “Director” means the Director of Health Care Services. (l) “Exempt facility” means any of the following: (1) A public hospital, which shall include either of the following: (A) A hospital, as defined in paragraph (25) of subdivision (a) of Section 14105.98. (B) A tax-exempt nonprofit hospital that is licensed under subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code and operating a hospital owned by a local health care district, and is affiliated with the health care district hospital owner by means of the district’s status as the nonprofit corporation’s sole corporate member. (2) With the exception of a hospital that is in the Charitable Research Hospital peer group, as set forth in the 1991 Hospital Peer Grouping Report published by the department, a hospital that is designated as a specialty hospital in the hospital’s most recently filed Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Hospital Annual Financial Disclosure Report, as of the first day of a program period. (3) A hospital that satisfies the Medicare criteria to be a long-term care hospital. (4) A small and rural hospital as specified in Section 124840 of the Health and Safety Code designated as that in the hospital’s most recently filed Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Hospital Annual 

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